[WM] Any WebMake Activity?

[Justin Mason]

Bryce Harrington said:
> I've been quite impressed with TT2.  I've also noticed that others have
> worked on some integration of this and CGI::Wiki, and I've been
> considering that tying in with that could result in a pretty powerful
> toolset (allowing for online-editing, for instance).  Have you looked at
> CGI::Wiki?  Any thoughts on it?

Well, I've been pretty happy with webmake.cgi for the sites I've set up;
it displays a tree of the content items, has a dir browser, and allows
editing of each content item individually etc.  However I think this
is pretty cruddy in WM 2.2; it's only really decent in CVS (which I should
really release ASAP ;)

> > 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 ;)
> 
> What I've done with tgen is built a plugin system for handling
> pre-processors; currently implemented are handlers for ettext, man, and
> pod, but it's straightforward to add new processors.  tgen is smart
> enough to only build changed files, but doesn't do dependency checking
> (I don't believe tt2 does either).  It's unlikely I'll need it though.
> It doesn't do page-level metadata management either, though that is
> something I'm going to need in the near future.

They're the big benefits of WM's model, alright.  But they're also
unfortunately the hard part ;)

> > But it's a big task, and with all the work on SpamAssassin, I haven't had
> > much time to do this... :(
> 
> Wow, I didn't realize you did SpamAssassin too.  Coolness.  In fact
> we're looking into setting that up here for the various mailing lists we
> host for the linux kernel development community.

Cool ;)

--j.