Re: Putting non-text files into pyblosxom - is this filekicker.py?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:36:01PM -0700, Ryan Barrett wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Chris G wrote:
> 
> >How can I put put some non-pyblosxom files into my pyblosxom hierachy?
> >
> >E.g. I want to put some .pdf files in there and link to them using the
> >wbgwiki.py plugin.  I also have some .jpg image files I'd like to use.
> >
> >Is the filekicker plugin capable of doing this sort of thing or do I
> >want something else?
> 
> sure, filekicker can do that. i haven't tested it with wbgwiki, but as long 
> as it gets the chance to cb_handle() the requests for the static files, it 
> should work fine.
> 
> from the docstring:
> 
> This plugin serves static files in the pyblosxom datadir. It looks for the 
> filename from the URL based at datadir. For example, if config['datadir'] 
> is '/home/ryanb/www/data', and a user requests 
> http://mysite.com/foo/bar.py, filekicker will send back the file 
> /home/ryanb/www/data/foo/bar.py. Its MIME type is inferred from its 
> extension.
> 
Just to report that this is doing exactly what I want.  I'm using it
with the wgbwiki.py plugin and my menu-creating plugin.  It means that
my 'menu' can include both pyblosxom .txt and .rst files *plus* any
other files such as .pdf and .jpg files.

-- 
Chris Green

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