Re: [pyblosxom-users] Pyblosxom permalinks are not permanent

[will <wi...@bl...>]

seanh wrote:
> 
> I believe that PyBlosxom (and blosxoms generally) have a fairly
> serious issue with permalinks.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but PyBlosxom provides two ways to link
> directly to a particular post: by category or by date. One or the
> other of these is what's usually referred to as a "permalink" in
> PyBlosxom blogs. But neither of these things is permanent at all.
> Re-categorise a post, which doesn't seem unusual or unreasonable, and
> that permalink is broken. Edit a post and, since PyBlosxom updates the
> date, that permalink is broken.
> 
 > This is terrible, right? Broken links everywhere.
 >

PyBlosxom lets you use whatever permalink format you want to use.  The 
format you want to use depends on how you do your blog.  If categories 
are fixed, then you can use a category based permalink.  If mtimes are 
fixed, use that.  If you want some third thing, you can write a plugin 
to do it however you want.

PyBlosxom has no internal notion of a permalink.  It's just a url in the 
story template.  It can be composed however you want or even not 
included if that suits your fancy.

Blosxom is the same way.

So...  it sounds like you see this as an architectural flaw, but I see 
this as a freeing sort of thing since it allows different people with 
different needs to implement whatever works for them.

/will