Re: years and categories (was Odd error in wbgwiki.py with numeric only directories)

Blake Winton wrote:

> The path /dev/2003/ always contains the stuff in the /dev/2003 folder.
>
> The items in the dev/2003 folder created in 2002 (Note: I'm using 2002
> here for disambiguation, so that we know which part is the folder name,
> and which part is the path.) could be:
>
> 1. /archive/2002/dev/2003 , or

 <snip>

> 4. /archive/2002/entries/dev/2003 . (This last one is to get around a root
> directory named "07"...)

<snip>

> The trade-off between those, as I see it, is that option 1
> restricts what I can name my top-level directories, whereas option 4 is
> too verbose for my liking.


How does option 1 restrict the top-level dir name but not option 4? Is it
because "entries" is a special word to trigger filtering?

1. The main outstanding issue is that I don't know if people are really
> interested in changing this.


I'm interested. Nice work.

Another option would be to support filtering on any path by appending date
and path arguments. Here are some examples of what I mean. All three of
these URLs would point to the same subset of entries:

1) url.com/2002?path=dev/2003
2) url.com/dev/2003?date=2002
3) url.com?path=dev/2003&date=2002

The first part is a normal path that Pyblosxom knows how to handle.
Everything after the question mark defines a filter. The path argument can
point to any valid path and the date argument accepts year, year/month, and
year/month/day.

Doing something dumb like

1) url.com/2006?date=2007
or
2) url.com/dev/?path=fun

would filter out everything and not return any entries. That's the users
problem.

After typing this up, I realize that it doesn't address the issue of wanting
to allow a path with a four digit number. I guess I support the idea of
(optionally) disabling the year/ and year/month/ indexes or moving them to
some prefixed path like archives/2007/

Steve

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/

_______________________________________________
pyblosxom-users mailing list
pyblosxom-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyblosxom-users