Re: 'Static' files as in pystaticfile.py plugin

Chris G <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:01:59PM -0400, Will Guaraldi wrote:
> On 6/13/07, Will Guaraldi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I like fixed best so far, but I'm not wild about it.  I had named it
> > "static" as in "static" vs. "dynamic".  The files that pystaticfile
> > handles are files with content that's on your site that isn't
> > blog-related.  So it's content that's not associated with a date--it's
> > static, undated, ...
> >
> > Maybe errata is an interesting word?  It covers all the things that
> > aren't blog-like.
> 
> I thought about it and changed the behavior of pystaticfile so that
> it's more wiki-like.  It seems silly that it only serves static
> entries and doesn't connect them together (a la wiki-like linking) and
> doesn't allow you to have a directory tree of these static entries.
> 
> So I decided to build a wbgwiki plugin.  It's a "wiki" in the sense
> that links can be added using wiki-like linking [[topic]] and [[topic
> | description]].
> 
> It doesn't maintain versions, doesn't allow you to edit files over the
> web, and it doesn't allow for collaborative editing--so in those
> senses it is not a wiki.
> 
>    http://bluesock.org/~willg/cgi-bin/pybltrac.cgi/wiki/wbgwiki
> 
> Any thoughts on the naming?  Is "wbgwiki" too much?
> 
It sounds as if this will be just what I've been looking for.  I'm
just back off holiday and still catching up with life but I'll be
trying it very soon I expect.

As regards the name it's OK, where does the wbg bit come from?

-- 
Chris Green

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