[Rest2web-develop] rest2web Progress and Thoughts

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Hello All,

At last a rest2web related email on the rest2web mailing list :-)


After a lot of work the new ConfigObj and pythonutils are nearly ready.
This means my focus has switched back to rest2web. (rest2web uses the
new version of pythonutils by the way).

I'm working towards a new release. The version currently in SVN already
features the gallery and fixes 'thispage' which was basically broken
from the start. It now works properly. 'page_description' is also
available as a value in the templates.

There are also other minor fixes etc.

The next release will include :

	the gallery
	ordered pages within a section
	a new 'file' keyword in the restindex

I probably won't complete the plugin system before I do a new release.
It basically works - but there is a difficult encoding problem (related
to the order that things are processed) that I can't be bothered to
think about.

The plugin system could potentially be used to bolt on an alternative
templating system by the way - like cheetah. If anyone *wanted* to do
that I'd be happy to work on integrating it better.

rest2web also badly needs a tutorial. It has lots of options in the
restindex and lots of values available in the templates. This makes the
documentation 'dense' and seem complicated. A basic site can be achieved
*very simply* in rest2web though.

Also a brief note about 'dynamic sites'. With some optimisation and
'content caching' combined with 'pickling' of data structures - it would
be possible to use rest2web as a framework to deliver dynamic content.

All the best,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python