Re: The Forrest Option

[Craig R. McClanahan]

David Graham wrote:

--- Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

David Graham wrote:
   

Rob mentioned something about Struts being setup for Maven already and
     

I
   

asked for clarification.  If that's true then I see no point in
complicating things with another build tool.  Also, it seems that
     

Maven in
   

some ways is a superset of Forrest functionality.  It handles the
     

website
   

plus the jar builds.

The more tools involved means it's harder to understand the build
     

process
   

which limits the number of people willing to put up with it and work
     

on
   

Struts.  My personal goal (and I hope the group's as well) is to have
*one* easy to use tool that builds all of Struts.  I don't care if
     

this is
   

Ant, Maven, or Forrest as long as it's only one of them.

David
     

Yes, but the goals around here are achieved by people willing to do the 
work.
   

I agree with you but it would be nice to have some kind of consensus
around the direction the build is going. 

I trust Don's judgement that Forrest is a good tool to use but I didn't
want the build to increase in complexity.  We can apparently plug Forrest
into a Maven build which I think is great.
 

<ducks>
We can even add Forrest-based generation to our current Ant-based build 
scripts :-).  It's just an external tool, after all.
</ducks>

There's only so much time we each have to spend on Struts.  I'd rather not
spend much time learning the build process.
David
 

Craig



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