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svn commit: r154593 - forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE-NOTES-0.7.txt

Author: crossley
Date: Sun Feb 20 17:01:02 2005
New Revision: 154593

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=154593
Log:
Start the notes for the next release.

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    forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE-NOTES-0.7.txt   (with props)

Added: forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE-NOTES-0.7.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE-NOTES-0.7.txt?view=auto&rev=154593
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+Apache Forrest 0.7 Release Notes ... http://forrest.apache.org/
+
+Apache Forrest is an XML standards-oriented documentation framework
+based upon Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT stylesheets and schemas,
+images and other resources. Forrest uses these to render the source
+content into a website via command-line, robot, or dynamic application.
+For more details, please see the website at http://forrest.apache.org/
+
+Status
+------
+
+New features in this version include:
+
+* 
+
+Full list of changes: http://forrest.apache.org/changes.html
+
+Upgrade guide: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/upgrading_07.html
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+- A Java Runtime Environment (1.4 or higher) installed.
+  This can be obtained from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html
+  or other places.
+
+- To build from source requires a Java Development Kit (1.4 or higher)
+
+Apache Ant is not required: Forrest uses its own version of Ant in tools/ant/
+Apache Cocoon is not required: Forrest uses its own version.
+
+Installing Apache Forrest
+-------------------------
+
+The distribution contains all Forrest resources (skins, XSLTs, images,
+schemas), source code and Forrest's own website documentation.
+
+- Copy somewhere permanent, like /usr/local/forrest or c:\forrest
+  Support for installation on Windows systems into directories containing
+  spaces is very new, please report back on your success or failure.
+
+- Set FORREST_HOME environment variable to point to that top-level directory.
+- Add to the system PATH environment variable, i.e.
+  $FORREST_HOME/bin (Unix) or %FORREST_HOME%\bin (Windows)
+
+Getting Started
+---------------
+
+See the file index.html for the quick start tips.
+
+Issue tracking
+--------------
+
+If you notice what appears to be a bug, please report it via the
+Forrest issue tracker: http://issues.cocoondev.org/
+
+Known issues are summarized at: http://forrest.apache.org/forrest-issues.html
+(a nice example of RSS syndication).
+
+Feedback
+--------
+
+Feedback, feature suggestions, bugs and any other issues can be discussed on
+http://forrest.apache.org/mail-lists.html

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