Re: Opinion on pyblosxom

 From my "not a good enough programer to help" point of view.

At 16:46 +0800 18/03/2003, in message [pyblosxom-users] Opinion on 
pyblosxom, wari-Yu9E6tdDWSZWk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
>FYI, Here's an email which I replied to that's in the blosxom mailing
>list, with the best of my knowledge on pyblosxom (at least I think so).

This email, and your answer raise a nice set of questions. The main 
one being the eternal compatible debate.

 From my point of view, and to make it short:

I think that it is interesting to have compatible products in an area 
like this one. And I think that ideally, compatibility has to be 
defined by a clear set of items. There could be a meeting point for 
the developers of the various Blosxom flavors. So that these issues 
can be openly discussed and some basic definitions agreed on.

Data level
A basic set of rules allowing for one to be able to switch engine on 
the same dataset with the minimum problem.
- Text files
- html files
- database for comments
Then, each developer is free to make a better engine allowing more 
functionality.

Protocol level
A set of minimum requirement for the implemented protocols
- TrackBack
- PingBack
- RSS format....
This is more on the field of the blogs tools at large than on the 
Blosxom level.

>Right now, all of us are a different animal with different focus and
>theme.
>
>  * Pyblosxom is the first to have plugins (compared with blosxom and
>    some others except PHosxom),
>  *** the first to come out with text formatting options,
>  * the first to come out with a different date scheme,
>  *** the first to come out with flavour overrides based on the directory
>    you are in,
>  *** the first to allow different types of files to render,
>  * the first to have caching of entry,
>  *** the first to allow user defined metadata in entries,
>  * and the first with XMLRPC services. I don't think that's lagging
>    behind really. I'd rather think of it as innovation :)

There are some features I don't know in this list ;-)

With some short explanations, I would be pleased to document the ones 
I don't know.

I am currently adding to the faq I started some sample definition for 
TrackBack and PingBack, I would be pleased to document the marked *** 
points above wich I did not knew off until now. And, by the way, I'd 
like to know how to setup posting through web browser.

I think that documentation allow more users to come in and more users 
mean more developpers (and the other way as well ;-)

-- 
Hofstadter's Law :
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into 
account Hofstadter's Law.


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