[WM] some remarks on WebMake

[Joern Clausen]

Hi!

I've been playing around with WebMake for some time now. I have three
things to mention (and some questions, see the next mail).

1. IMHO this is not necessary:


--- SiteCache.pm        2001/05/04 15:45:01     1.1
+++ SiteCache.pm        2001/05/07 16:08:55
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
 
   # use AnyDBM_File, but use the more efficient DB_File where supported
   my $dbtype = 'AnyDBM_File';
-  if ($^O !~ /win|mac|os2/i) { $dbtype = 'DB_File'; }
 
   my %db;
   for ($try = 0; $try < 4; $try++)


   as the definition of @AnyDBM_File::ISA already dictates the order in
   which the DB modules are tried. I don't have DB_File on every machine
   (and don't want to install it), so I'm happy to get SDBM_File.

2. Are there any known problems with this cache? I have some very basic
   pages, with the title given in <wmmeta title="..."> and referenced
   as $[this.title]. Every now and then, the title from another page is
   inserted. This error is "fixed" by simply running webmake again.
   Currently I make always two passes with "webmake -F", but this is
   not really desirable. This happens with Solaris/SDBM_File and
   NetBSD/DB_File, so I don't think that the DB part itself is broken.
   This got worse with version 1.2, now the error remains, even after
   running webmake again.

3. More a request for enhancement (if it is one at all): My source files
   are distributed across a directory hierarchie, which is the same as in
   the output directory. If this is a clever decision is another question...

   I declare them with

   <contents src="src/" name="*.txt" format="text/html"/>

   <contents src="src/links" name="*.txt" prefix="links/" format="text/html"/>

   to be able to access them as src/foo.txt and src/links/bar.txt
   respectively. What about an attribute "recursive", or even a default
   behaviour, so that the first contents definition would find the files
   in subdirectories as well?

-- 
 Joern Clausen                                joern at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
 Faculty of Technology                   http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
 Bielefeld University, Germany