[WM] Any WebMake Activity?

[Justin Mason]

Bryce Harrington said:

> We've been using EtText along with template-toolkit at the Open Source
> Development Labs for the website and some general documentation.
> However, we're probably going to move away from ettext in favor of
> Text::WikiFormat, due to issues with our JP lab processing Japanese
> language pages with it.  So we'd love to hear if there are any plans for
> further development of EtText.

Definitely.  I think EtText is the best bit, myself ;)
I'd be interested in trying to fix those issues BTW...

> Btw, I created an additional tool called 'tgen' to make it a little
> easier to use template-toolkit for processing ettext-formatted pages;
> it's somewhat analogous in operation to WebMake but bases processing
> decisions on file extensions rather than Makefiles.  I'm likely to be
> putting out a new release in the near future, so would love to hear
> feature requests.

BTW, I think you're on the right track -- I've been contemplating redoing
WebMake using the ttk for templating, since the WM templating system is
quite simplistic, and has some issues as a result.

What I'd do would be ttk+ettext+webmake's metadata model+webmake's
dependencies tracking, with possibly some new tags, one to make it more
intuitive to convert a tree of files into output files, and a tag to draw
in media from a location that doesn't already exist in the output tree.
That's the basic TODO list right there ;)

But it's a big task, and with all the work on SpamAssassin, I haven't had
much time to do this... :(

--j.