On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:23:48AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I am +1 for dumping Forrest. I never grok why something so simple as > our static website needs something so complicated to build it. > I think you've nailed the difference between the forrest crowd and the rest of us. I totally agree with your wondering about the need for something that <flame>big and bloated</flame> to do something so simple that everyone else could do it in a moment with an editor and running a simple command.
> I'd rather err in having less-than-perfect technology with the > benefit of trivial addition/edit/update. Granted, it requires having > Java running, but that's not so onerous in this day and age. > This model has worked just fine for www.a.o and the docs for httpd - it is simple, easy enough to use that anyone with a reasonable grasp of how editors work can easily use it and it has proven quite effective over a long period of time. The one thing I never understood is why incubator insists on placing the whole forrest burden on new projects - as if they don't have enough other things to worry about than learning a system that they're likely to ditch as soon as they have the chance? vh Mads Toftum -- `Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!' - lwall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
