Re: [Springframework-developer] website

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

I think Maven could make everyone's life easier by generating Javadoc,
source cross-reference etc. But I agree with Isabelle, for 1.0 we will stick
with Ant as our build tool and whatever we do with Maven must make things
easier, not harder. I think we could use it to generate some parts of the
web site even for 1.0.

Regards,
Rod

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Risberg" <tri...@tr...>
To: <spr...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] website


> I think Isabelle meant the upp front work of figuring out how to use
> Maven.  The amount of new APIs/utilities/frameworks that we have to keep
> up with is overwhelming, and sometimes it is better to stick with what
> you already know.  On the other hand, if there is a project member that
> already knows Maven and is willing to do the configuration/education
> that is necessary, then this would be a nice option.  You and Luke seems
> to be the ones with Maven experience.
>
> Thomas
>
> > I thought the whole point of maven was to reduce the amount of work
> > needed to create a project web site and documentation.
> >
> > If maven is too "heavy weight", perhaps the Forrest project would be
> > more to your liking.  The docs are in a "docbook-lite" XML
> > format and out of the box it generates HTML and PDF.  Having the site
> > and docs in XML will make it easier to keep the site
> > consistent and make it easier for folks to contribute good docs.
> >
> > I am currently working on a doc for the uPortal project using Forrest.
> > Here are example links:
> >
> > source document:
> > http://rci.rutgers.edu/~wgthom/forrest/site/eclipse-uportal-howto.xml
> > generated html:
> > http://rci.rutgers.edu/~wgthom/forrest/site/eclipse-uportal-howto.html
> > generated pdf:
> > http://rci.rutgers.edu/~wgthom/forrest/site/eclipse-uportal-howto.pdf
> >
> > later.
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> > Isabelle Muszynski wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > Forgot one point : maven.
> > > I think we already have a lot to worry about (i.e. work for) without
> adding one more ingredient to the stew. Maven looks really good, and we
> should use it at some point, but can we please try to get a release out
> without having to learn yet one more thing?
> > > If we talk about a standard format for docs, then I like docbook and
> FOP. But it means having to write xml, which isn't as easy as writing
text.
> > > Right now I'm planning to produce PDF's for the docs, it's portable
> and everybody has a viewer. I'll also be able to produce HTML from the
> docs, so that we can put an online version on the website.
> > >
> > > Isabelle
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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