Re: A question and a request

will wrote:

>>So I could have a directory of entries only friends could read, or only
>>family could read.
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>That's probably something you'd want to implement as a plugin.  The plugin
>could check the .htaccess directories and match it up with the entries
>list being returned as well as the path_info of the request to make sure
>unauthorized users weren't seeing things they weren't supposed to see.
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Yes it's not that difficult to do actually, just a little bit of 
hacking, Ted actually has interest in doing such things, but I guess 
there's no code yet for such things.

>It might take a bit of hacking on the existing plugins (pycategories,
>pyarchives, pycalendar, ...) if you choose to use them as they're not
>really setup for that sort of thing.  But I don't think it'd be too hard.
>
Or we could have an exclude plugin of some sort, based on the lack of 
http['HTTP_USER'] environment variables, that is much more easier to 
manage I guess. If you code in python, this is easily done as a plugin.

BTW, we do not have support for static entries yet (although I do have 
some sort of funky caching code), you could place a .htaccess with an 
.htpassword to get things working with funky caching.

>>The request is much larger. I like the simplicity in the way the entries
>>are stored, but it's sort of HTML-centric.
>>
>>Has anyone looked at Structured Text as in what Zope uses and what's in
>>the Docutils project?
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>We have "preformatters" which take the entry file and apply whatever
>formatter you like.  Wari has written preformatters for wiki, reST,
>textile, and possibly a few others.  This is really his cup of tea--I
>write html.
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Yes, this is the first reason why I coded pyblosxom in the first place, 
without this reason, I don't have the drive to do it. I don't have 
Structured Text in the work, but if you download pyblosxom from CVS, 
you'll have reStructured Text, wiki that uses the moinmoin engine, and 
textile to name a few. You can code the Zope's structure text yourself 
if you know how. The plugin architechture is very simple to use (thanks 
to Will)