Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] let's talk about pyblosxom's future

[will kahn-g. <wi...@bl...>]

First off, thank you Sebastian for all the work you've done on Pyblosxom!

Second, I'm excited about shameless plugs for two reasons:

1. if we have a list of them, then we can give that list to Pyblosxom 
users and it makes it easier to transfer to something else if they want 
to (they can just continue to use Pyblosxom ad infinitum if it works for 
them)

2. having a list makes it clearer whether there are Pyblosxom 
equivalents and makes it clearer whether it's good to end Pyblosxom now

volt looks really interesting. I think all the urls look the same except 
for permalink urls. So the only problem I'd have when switching is that 
I'd need to redirect existing blog entry permalinks to where they'd live 
under volt.

Sebastian: Did you solve that problem?

/will


On 06/08/2012 11:55 AM, seb...@ss... wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've taken a 6 month hiatus. Two things have happened in that time:
>>
>> 1. I picked up other projects.
>> 2. I didn't really miss working on pyblosxom.
>
> Hi Will,
>
> 1) it's sad to see pyblsoxom go
> 2) I can understand you quite well.
>
>
> I have toyed quite intensively with pyblsoxom for a while and while I like
> the coding style and it's workings, it's age shows. There are very nice
> templating engines out there, which make many things easier and it was not
> easy to make use of those engines without basically breaking all plugins
> and rewriting much...
>
>
> Shameless plug for a project that is not mine:
> I have to say that I defected from pyblosxom, and use "volt" now, which is
> a very you project using a nice templating engine, and is plugin based
> too.
>
> It takes plaintext, markdown, rst (or whatever you write a parser for),
> and creates static html pages using the jinja2 engine. It ncludes atom
> feed and monthly/yearly archives and tag-based index pages. It's extremly
> configurable and it was not too hard to convert my pyblosxom posts into
> the format that volt needed. I am not involved with the project, but it's
> a cool one. If you want to see volt output in action, have a look at my
> blog at http://sspaeth.de
>
> Sebastian