Hi All, Hope all is going well.
I spent a few hours over the weekend updating the Debian Forrest package to the latest version, 0.7. An experimental version has been uploaded to http://people.debian.org/~crafterm/forrest if you'd like to try it out (version 0.7-pre1). I'd be grateful to hear any feedback.
One of the larger changes between the previous version in Debian is that Forrest now uses input and output plugins for reading/writing data. Since the Debian package is meant to be multi-user compatible, I've modified the default Forrest installation so that it looks for Forrest plugins in the /var/lib/forrest/plugins directory, and have added postinstallation scripts to create a 'forrest' group for this purpose.
Essentially, this means anyone who wants to install forrest plugins from forrest.apache.org willl need to be in this group, or will need to overwrite the forrest.properties setting for specifying where forrest plugins are stored.
I haven't optimized the package yet (ie. removed common libraries and added dependencies to pre-existing packages) since I'd like to get the core functionality working first. If any of you try the package out it would be great if you could let me know where it could be improved.
Once we get close to a good stable package, i'll upload it into the archive.
Cheers, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
