Genius plan for the website!

[Edmund von der Burg]

2009/7/3 James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com>:
> On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote:
>
>> Here is my cunning plan to regain the inner beauty:
>>
>>  1) wget -r the current site to a bunch of static files
>
> We have a bunch of static files. The whole thing is generated from xml.
>
>>  2) tedious finding of repeated text replacing them with
>> Template::Toolkit [% INCLUDE ... %]
>
> How about replacing them with <!-- #include ... -->  instead? I know we're a perl website, but lets be pragmatic and not go overkill.

Nope - need to be able to view the final HTML without running a
server. Otherwise there is just yet another barrier to making changes
that stop people from doing things. A little build script is the
simplest possible compromise

>>  3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages
>
> Unnecessary
>
>>  4) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take html and upload it to server
>
> Unnecessary
>
>> 5) dump all templates and scripts into github (or whatever)
>
> That bit's easy
>
>>  6) err - that's it!
>
> If you still have a 'build' step, it's horribly wrong.
>
>> Any volunteers or am I going to have to do it all myself?
>
> /me steps back, has enough to do.
>
> --James
>



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