Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] category listings

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

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Wari Wahab wrote:
> > In regards to ignoring things globally, I would think that there are a
> > series of directories (and files) that would want to be ignored by
> > everything--regardless of the template.  So then maybe we shoudl add
> > something like this to the ini file:
> >   ignore = CVS *.tmp
> > and then tools.Walk would naturally never return those kinds of files.
> 
> You know, the more I see tools.Walk, the more I agree to myself that we
> shouldn't use it. A better way is to have an entry object of some sort,
> pass it some parameters when we instantiate it, and it fills itself up
> with entry dicts and have methods like getBody or something so that
> plugins can use it, the entry object should also probably know about
> it's 'neighbours' like the comments for example. I don't know how that
> can happen though. Right now, plugins can't do anything with the
> contents. This means changing pyblosxom's architecture, and related
> plugins. I need to think about how to get this done.

Actually, that bit about plugins can't do anything with the
contents--that's not true.  Before anything gets printed out, it goes
through an executeTransform call in printTemplate.  So every plugin can
adjust the contents of a given entry if it registers with the parseitem 
callback chain.

That's what I implemented when I did the pyfortune plugin.  I think you 
had some issues with it, but it hasn't been removed yet.

/will