Re: dates in filenames?

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Nathan Bullock wrote:
> 
> I would like all of my meta-data to be saved at the top of each entry.

The default entry parser (.txt) for PyBlosxom already does this part.


> And then all of this data to be propagated to one global meta-data file.

This you would have to build a script/plugin to do.


> This file would keep track of the entry's date, filename, category, etc. 
> This would mean that A: Pyblosxom would never have to traverse your 
> entire directory structure, except when the global meta-data file is 
> updated.

This is something I'm looking to adjust PyBlosxom to handle in the future. 
We'll probably release PyBlosxom 1.1 with the things that are currently in 
CVS.  Then I want to work on how to solve this issue gracefully.  I'm 
thinking it'll be solved for 1.2.  I'm not sure when the timeframe would 
be.


> B: The structure of your entries could be handled in ways other than the 
> category system that is currently used (for example I would like to keep 
> all my entries grouped according to when I wrote them maybe a directory 
> for each month, but to the user they would appear to be grouped in 
> categories.) The category would essentially be another piece of metadata 
> saved at the top of a file.

You'll hve to build a filelist handler plugin that implements the behavior 
you're looking for.  That can be done with the existing codebase.  There's 
a tutorial on the wiki that walks through filelist handler plugins that 
might help out some.

Hope that helps.

/will


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