Hi everybody, I have updated the VIFF homepage and switched from having just one XHTML file to a system where pages are written in reStructuredText format and then rendered to XHTML.
The first new page is just a simple page with links to the VIFF documentation, including the design talk slides which were never online before. The pages can be checked out via hg clone http://hg.viff.dk/viff.dk (it looks weird, I know... but like this the default target directory is viff.dk which is nice, I think. We can easily change the URL, though, if anybody thinks this is important.) That gives you a bunch of .txt files which follow an easy format described here: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html This is the standard format used in Python for documentation that is both easy to read and write in plain-text, but which can be turned into HTML (and LaTeX, and probably other formats as well). Hacking on the website is now very easy (and I'm sure you can find some bad English you will want to correct): hg clone http://hg.viff.dk/viff.dk cd viff.dk ./update_news.py ./buildhtml.py You only need to run update_news.py if you want to regenerate the news-blob on the front page in your local version. It is done automatically every two hours on viff.dk. Now change something, add new files, and run buildhtml.py to generate the .html files. When you are satisfied with the results, you simply 'hg commit' it and tell me to pull from your repository. We can also setup a shared repository on viff.dk if people prefer that and I become a bottleneck in the process. I went with this system since it is *simple* in terms of infrastructure -- I really like the idea of having a website that does not depend on a huge backend system (database or webserver). With this setup you can preview the website directly from the filesystem and easily work on it from several locations. Docutils (the project making reStructuredText) is not the most flexible system out there, but again I hope that the simplicity will be a good thing. Let me know what you think! Oh, one last thing:c to build the website you will need Feedparser, Genshi, and Docutils: * http://feedparser.googlecode.com/files/feedparser-4.1.zip * http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.4.4.tar.bz2 * http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docutils-snapshot.tgz or for people on DAIMI: just put /home/mg/opt/lib/python in your PYTHONPATH. That should do the trick. -- Martin Geisler _______________________________________________ viff-devel mailing list (http://viff.dk/) viff-devel@viff.dk http://lists.viff.dk/listinfo.cgi/viff-devel-viff.dk
