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I'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 generator

I'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 ago
Templer 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 ago
  I'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 ago
      As 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.

keithpeter 14y ago

Templer 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 ago
I'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 ago
    As 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.