Re: New rdate-plugin

Posted too soon I think. I've now moved it to here:

http://github.com/seanh/PyBlosxom-metadate/

Hopefully I'll be happy with this version.

I combined the two files into one that runs as a pyblosxom plugin and 
interprets the #published values or can be run from the command-line to 
add #published values to entries that lack them. You can also add the 
#published values yourself ofcourse. I removed the option to
reset mtimes as I don't see why you'd need that anymore. Since I'm 
changing the design now I thought it was a bit disingenuous to call it a 
'new version' of David Zejda's rdate utility, so I renamed it metadate 
and credited David for the original idea.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:29:22PM +0100, seanh wrote:
> http://github.com/seanh/PyBlosxom-rdate
> 
> This may be buggy! I just finished it this second, but it's a pretty
> simple plugin and seems to be working on my blog.
> 
> I use (my own reimplementation of) the rdate utility from the plugin
> registry. It backs up the mtimes of your entries as metadata lines
> inside the entry files themselves, and restores the mtimes of your
> entries from these metadata lines. It's a standalone utility not a
> pyblosxom plugin, pyblosxom simply keeps on using file mtimes as the
> dates of posts.
> 
> This behaviour of altering mtimes got to be a menace though, it trips
> up all sorts of programs. If caching is enabled then pyblosxom uses
> the mtimes to determine whether an entry needs to be parsed again.
> Sync tools like rsync tend to use mtimes to determine whether a file
> needs to be transferred. My text editor thinks that a file has been
> modified externally if its mtime gets changed while I have it open in
> the editor, and it then refuses to save the file for me. And so on.
> 
> So instead I wrote a pyblosxom plugin that reads these #published
> lines and uses them as the post dates instead of the mtimes. Now you
> don't need to run the rdate utility to reset all your mtimes, just add
> #published lines in your entry files and they will be used.
> 
> I also did a complete rewrite of the original rdate script, I think
> the code is a lot better now and I made resetting file mtimes optional
> so that you can still use the script to add #published lines to those
> entries that lack them without editing the mtimes of the other
> entries.

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