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by Vincent Siveton :: Rate this Message:

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Hi,

FYI, the Forrest Team started a discussion about the future of Forrestdoc:
http://www.nabble.com/-Proposal--decide-the-future-of-forrestdoc-tf4060050.html

A key concern is to know if the Maven community would like to accept
the code. WDYT?

Cheers,

Vincent

2007/6/6, Vincent Siveton <vincent.siveton@...>:

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for your replies.
>
> I created a new JXR issue for this thread.
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JXR-54
>
> You could see that I created a Maven Forrestdoc Plugin to handle the
> Forrestdoc tool.
> Actually, Forrestdoc has several limitations like the hardcoded bottom
> and the fact that it is not possible to aggregate several Maven
> projects.
>
> Your feedback are of course welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
> 2007/6/5, Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.scherler.ext@...>:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 21:27 +0800, Gav.... wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Vincent Siveton [mailto:vincent.siveton@...]
> > > > Sent: Monday, 4 June 2007 8:27 PM
> > > > To: dev@...
> > > > Cc: dev@...
> > > > Subject: Forrestdoc and Maven JXR
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The Maven Team want to start a discussion about Forrestdoc and JXR
> > > > projects.
> > > >
> > > > Background:
> > > > Forrestdoc [1]: Forrestdoc is a Javadoc/Source code/Documentation
> > > > management system.
> > > > JXR [2]: JXR is a source cross reference generator.
> > > >
> > > > It sounds that these projects are very similar.
> > >
> > > I believe both originated from the same code at Alexandria.
> >
> > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-820 has a nice link
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=114082527806288
> >
> > Yes both are using Alexandria and working together seems to be a topic
> > before as well.
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > What is the status of Forrestdoc? Any release available? Could we join
> > > > our efforts?
> >
> > You are always welcome to join. A release does not exists ATM and like
> > Gavin said it had not much attention over the last years.
> >
> > I had a quick look on the example and the code. Seems to be pretty
> > useful. Not sure how much time I will find (and when) to have a closer
> > look but working together on it could really speed things up.
> >
> > salu2
> > --
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