Chris Rossi has a fantastic set of ideas in a package for this:

  https://github.com/chrisrossi/dumpling 
<https://github.com/chrisrossi/dumpling>

- Directory tree is resource graph
- Serialized as YAML
- Git commit transactions as pyramid_tm transactions

In fact, his set of ideas for git integration (underneath in AcidFS) are really 
intriguing.

—Paul

> On Aug 23, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Has anyone used traversal over a filesystem for non-static content?
> I'm thinking of putting my HTML content in files to get Git versioning
> and text-editor friendliness, so that each file would represent a URL
> but not be served as-is (you'd still put a site template around it and
> plug in metadata). Interspersed there would be true static files
> (e.g., images), although I'd like to have dynamic thumbnails. This
> suggests a traversal structure with objects for directories and
> different file types, like Kotti but with the nodes in the filesystem
> rather than in a database. (Without through-the-web editing.)
> 
> My primary issue is how to structure the files. In the past I've used
> email-message format, with the metadata in headers and the HTML body
> in the content, and a script that applies a template to generate a
> static HTML page. That's OK for editing, although if you view the raw
> file in a browser it formats all the metadata into a paragraph.
> Another approach I'm considering is to put the metadata in a TOML file
> per directory. That would allow for expansion and automatically parse
> data types, and be more human-readable than JSON, but it would
> separate the metadata from the content. Has anyone done anything
> similar?
> 
> Also, have people used the Python thumbnail-management libraries? Is
> there a lightweight one you'd recommend? My past practice is to
> pregenerate the thumbnails as static files next to the originals, but
> I want to get away from that.
> 
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