Re: line count plugin

Wari Wahab wrote:

> 1. Plugins that can read entries before caching, so metadata produced by
>    plugins are not called on demand anymore when cached. Your proposed
>    plugin fits this description, why count again when the resulting
>    number is going to stay the same?)
>    
> 2. Entry reading plugins that may not what data to be cached, therefore
>    calculated every time. Plugins that does this would include comment
>    counts, google api queries (sorry, that's a bad one), but yeah you
>    get the idea.

This sounds neat.

> So, for now, what are your options?  You could wait for 0.7 or if this
> is important (for your site design, etc), you could either hack 0.6 or
> get your plugin to read the files itself, getting values of the filename
> from the entryList list of dicts. 

I ended up making a preformatter that did what I want. It's not ideal, because the 
wc info gets injected directly into the story, but it will hold me for now.

  The plugin have to be done in such a
> way that when $wc is called, a counter increases to know which entry you
> are looking at.  You can look at the dotComments plugin code to see how
> this is done:
> http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/code/pyblosxom-dotComments.tar.gz

I think what I need to do is pull the CVS code; it seems clear that the new 
version is very different from the prior.

~mindlace




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