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Montag - python static site generator v0.01
- tuananh 14y agoRIP June 5, 2012. No descriptive Readme or whatsoever!?
- freddigbjk 14y agoThe docs are bit short for the moment. But simply put, montag is a bit like hobix and relies on the command line and yaml/json files. Docs will be added as the project gains momentum
- stevekemp 14y agoSpeaking for myself, and with my NIH syndrome firmly in place, unless you have documentation you'll find momentum is going to be very slow to build.
- keithpeter 14y agoI assumed the project was an art joke or something until I discovered some code
- stevekemp 14y agoI'd be more interested in this project if it had documentation. Still I have spent several hours over the past few days reviewing various static site generators to see how well they fair against my own personal requirements: * https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators Perhaps unsurprisingly my own tool https://github.com/skx/templer https://github.com/skx/templer is currently in the lead. The biggest failure I've seen with most of the static site generators I've reviewed has been complete failure to successfully handle symbolic links.
- keithpeter 14y agoTempler looks like something I could understand - I am not a programmer. Suppose I had a tree of html snippets built up over time, and I added a new snippet and then issued the templer command. Would the html files of unchanged snippets have been 'touched'? Would 'assets' be re-copied? I use lftp to selectively upload pages and their associated assets to a remote server. I'm attempting to find something better than the bash script hacks I currently use...
- stevekemp 14y agoI'm pleased that it seems understandable. Templer has two modes of operation: 1. Files are processed/copied from beneath the input tree to the output tree. 2. Files are worked on "in-place". In the latter case only files that need to be rebuilt are ever touched/modified/updated. The same applies with the "input/ -> output/" mode of operation, but there is the caveat that I expect people run "make clean", or similar, every now and again. If you didn't, if you just re-ran it every now and again only the things that had changed, or were missing, would be updated. (Assets are actually copied each time, if you're not running in-place, but we use tar to do it intelligently, so timestamps, etc wouldn't be changed unnecessarily.)
- keithpeter 14y ago"...if you just re-ran it every now and again only the things that had changed, or were missing, would be updated." Exactly the behaviour I was hoping for. I've 'cloned' your repository and will proceed to play. Thanks for making this generally available.
- stevekemp 14y agoAs per the other link there are a lot of these systems out there, each with different pros and cons. If you spot bugs or have suggestion please do drop me a mail/raise an issue.
- llimllib 14y agoEverybody and their uncle (including me) has written their own static site generator too, I don't understand why this is on HN?
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoHave to agree - especially as my static site generator is now clearly not going to do SEO, content marketing etc for me and I am heading back off to running a WSGI server
- wildtype 14y agoIsn't OP's "static site generator" run on a WSGI server?
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoNot sure - I meant a dynamic server.
- aadlani 14y agoNo doc, no README ? it's maybe too early to promote it.
- dktbs 14y agoNo docs aside from some cryptic nonsense in the readme, why is so much stuff like this hitting the frontpage on HN lately?
- bcl 14y agoSkip this and use Pelican - http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.1.1/ http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.1.1/ which supports reStructuredText, Markdown, and AsciiDoc.
- angwal 14y agoHow does this compare to other static site generators,lets take hyde for example, any particular advantages?
- wildtype 14y agoWhat a short markdown processor!
- lhnz 14y agoWhat hilariously cryptic commit messages...