Re: [Phpblosxom-devel] Introduction, offer, and need advice

[Magnus N. <ma...@no...>]

Jim Nicholson wrote:

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>On 8/27/04 10:28 AM, "Magnus Nordlander" <ma...@no...> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>I'm not really sure what it is that you want, however I will give some
>>comments on the things that you have listed.
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>>- support for meta-creation-date
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>>Why do you need that? You could alter the real creation date with the
>>UNIX-command touch. There will be support to change the dates using the
>>upcoming webadmin plugin.
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>The main reason is because my existing blosxom setup uses meta dates instead
>of file systems dates. There are several reasons for this, not in any
>particular order:
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>=  if my ISP fails, and I have to restore the blog somewhere else, my
>current backup strategy doesn't have accurate file creation dates on the
>backup copies of posts, so all the posts would show up on the day they were
>restored rather than the day they were entered.
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>= philosophically, I consider an edit to an existing document to be an edit,
>and don't want date-based permalinks to break just because I go in and edit
>a file and forget to touch the date back to where it was.
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>= My blosxom blogs are seeded by a perl script that converts MT export files
>into blosxom posts. That script currently sets meta-creation-date rather
>than touching the output file.
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>= Jim
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>>- A port of textile2.
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>> From what I've seen it looks like a standard postformatter, shouldn't
>>be too hard to implement.
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>>The category plugin right now is quite a bit short handed.
>>Any work on that is appreciated.
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>>There is much going on right now.
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>>Currently making is
>>- An installation script.
>>- A web based administrative tool.
>>- Support for trackback
>>- Support for XML-RPC
>>- Support for RSS and Atom-feeds.
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>>New in version 0.2 (which is not yet released) is that all modules will
>>be, not required to, but encoraged to register themselves, and which
>>configuration-keys they use in a $moduleinfo-array. This will be used to
>>enable web based configuration of the modules.
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>>Look at for example comments.module in the CVS.
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>>Since you didn't really ask any questions, I can't really answer any :)
>>
>>Magnus Nordlander
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OK, I see how this could be useful. If the aquisition of the mtime is 
done with a module overrideable user-function it wouldn't be to hard to 
make what you want possible, would it?

Magnus Nordlander