Thorsten Scherler wrote:
I plan to use Forrest only to create new pubs or port existing pubs.
Once complete, they will live in the Lenya CMS and never return to
Forrest.
There are a couple of issues to solve to have a out-of-the-box support
for lenya2forrest and vice versa. One major thing is site.xml (forrest)
vs sitetree.xml (lenya) and the way lenya stores documents (special
folder hierarchy).
This requires some thinking on my part as I assumed that going from
Forrest to Lenya is easily accomplished. Should I simply port direct to
Lenya and leave Forrest out of the process?
Actually if you really only want to use forrest to prepare the import I
strongly recommend to use lenya directly. I do not see any benefit from
porting first to forrest. Sadly we do not yet have accomplished an easy
integration process from forrest2lenya which would justify this step.
Later on you can use the lenya-plugin of the whiteboard to get the
content and render it with forrest, because that is the part that lenya
should/could use from forrest.
I would agree with Thorsten here. There is not really anything to be
gained in using Forrest to leverage your stuff into Lenya. When I read
your original mail I thought you were wanting to use Forrest to publish
the documents and use Lenya to edit them. This is the first goal of the
Forrest-Lenya plugin we have hinted at for a long time now (but nobody
has implemented).
If you want to use Lenya to both edit *and* publish then you are better
off going straight into Lenya.
Ross
