David Thompson <[email protected]> skribis:
> Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> This patch is a draft for the html->sxml website conversion.
>
> Looking good!
Indeed!
> But, I have one comment overall about our development strategy:
>
> I see a lot of absolute paths like
> '/software/guix/static/base/css/base.css'. These will of course work
> when viewing the site on gnu.org, but how do we develop the site on our
> own computers?
I was wondering too, does IceCat have a plug-in to specify the root of
such URLs?
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to generate the site and serve it with
> Guile's HTTP server to see what the result looks like before
> committing patches.
Sure. I think what Mathieu provides is a good first step, and I’ll
happily commit the wrapped-lines version if there are no objections.
The next step would be to introduce a (www utils) module, say. It would
have, among other things:
(define current-url-root
(make-parameter "/"))
(define (static-url-base)
(string-append (current-url-root) "/static/base"))
(define (css-url file)
(string-append (static-url-base) "/css"))
and so on. The pages would be modified to use these procedures instead
of hard-coded paths.
How does that sound?
Thanks, Mathieu!
Ludo’.
