RE: wml devellopment

You want to invent a new file system? Why don't you just use symbolic links?

Cheers,
Fritz

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Darryl Smith wrote:

> I have a feature that I need....
>
> What I would love to be able to do is to put a setting in the .WMLRC file in
> a directory that says
> 	* Got to another directory
> 	* Compile every file from that directory but put the output in this
> directory
> 	* Allow the links to files to be absolute (even including site etc)
>
> Why?
>
> Well, I am starting a subsiduary business, and there is a lot of content
> that is common between the two sites... I don't want to have to copy files,
> directories etc, meaning that I would have multiple sets of identical source
> code and graphics. I don't know how feasable this is... It may be too hard,
> but it would be cute :-)
>
> Darryl
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Denis Barbier
> Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2003 7:36 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: wml devellopment
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 06:45:23PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Fritz Zaucker wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:45:54AM +0200, J. Stein wrote:
> > > > > is the devellopment of wml frozen, or are there still any
> > > > > volunters?
> > > >
> > > > To be honest, it is currently frozen, but I am willing to work on
> > > > it soon.  Hmmm, for how long am I telling this?
> > >
> > > The question is, what is currently missing?
> > >
> >
> > I personally think the navbar is a big ugly heap of ****. I usually
> > ended up coding my own ad-hoc navbar code, because I did not like the
> > code generated by the navbar. I have a patch for the navbar to make it
> > behave more like I want it to. However, a good revamp will probably be
> > in order.
>
> I won't drop the current navbar implementation for compatibility reasons,
> but may ship a better alternative, just send me one ;)
>
> Another point is about UTF-8.  Perl 5.8.0 introduced drastic changes wrt I/O
> and I do not see how to write source code which still works with Perl < 5.8
> and does the right thing with Perl >= 5.8.  In the latter case, included
> files should tell their encoding and be converted into UTF-8 when read,
> passes 2-9 would then deal with UTF-8 code only and output files may be
> recoded when written onto disk.  I did not find a solution, but UTF-8
> zealots could tell that there is a simple solution, convert all your files
> to UTF-8 and do not care about other encodings.  Hmmm, not sure I'll do that
> ;)
>
> About multilingual sites, I would also like to document and incorporate into
> WML an improvement I made to the Debian web site.  Some portions of text
> which are part of templates (i.e. included in many pages) are now translated
> via gettext (see intl:gettext(3), shipped by mp4h). But WML does not build
> mp4h with loadable modules support because it has only be tested under
> Linux, you will have to compile and install mp4h if you want this feature
> enabled.
>
>

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