Again, I want to make things simple.

Now, Jeff is offeing us to make patches for poi-dev in order to
make the poi-build fit to the forrest and forrestbot.

""Can I/we accept his offer? or Can NOT?""

... Choice between two things. Very simple.

Sincerely,

-- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

P.S.  I'll check the patches from him.

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:35:42 -0400
(Subject: Re: new forrest live site)
"Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Man this drives me nuts.  That�s why I didn't want to use forrest.  Lessons
> learned from Centipede: the more dependencies your build has the more often
> it breaks.  $20 says they never really make it to 1.0.
> 
> You wonder why I constantly ask "do we need this dependency" when someone
> tries it?  Because its a PAIN IN THE BUTT to manage dependencies.  Every
> dependency adds a brittle link.  I like POI to stay simple and layer the
> dependencies on top of it rather than under it.
> 
> -Andy
> 
> On 7/17/03 8:34 AM, "Tetsuya Kitahata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Forwarded by Tetsuya Kitahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
> > From:    Jeff Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date:    Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:29:36 +1000
> > Subject: Re: new forrest live site
> > ----
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:33:12PM +0900, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:
> > ....
> >> By the way, how can we (jakarta-poi) set up the forrestbot?  we are
> >> doing the update manually:  it is waste of time, needless to say
> > 
> > I will, but some changes will be needed first, to get POI building with
> > out-the-box Forrest.  Currently, building with Forrest 0.4 gives:
> > 
> > validate-xdocs:
> > /home/jeff/apache/jakarta/jakarta-poi/src/documentation/content/xdocs/hdf/proj
> > ectplan.xml:367:12:
> > The content of element type "document" must match
> > "(header,body,footer?)".
> > 
> > This is because Forrest uses a built-in document-v11.dtd, whereas POI is
> > relying on a modified version in src/documentation/content/xdocs/dtd/.
> > This illustrates why it's a bad idea to override a DTD and not give it a
> > different public id.  The proper way to override a DTD is documented at
> > http://xml.apache.org/forrest/validation.html
> > 
> > So either:
> > 
> > - Someone from POI can volunteer to fix up things to build against
> >  Forrest 0.4
> > - I'll volunteer to get POI working with what will shortly be Forrest
> >  0.5, submit a patch to poi-dev, which can be applied when 0.5 is
> >  released.
> > 
> > 
> > --Jeff
> > 
> >> Sincerely,
> >> 
> >> -- Tetsuya ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----------------------------------------------------
> >> Tetsuya Kitahata --  Terra-International, Inc.
> >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> http://www.terra-intl.com/
> >> (Apache Jakarta Translation, Japanese)
> >> http://jakarta.terra-intl.com/
> >> 
> >> 
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