Montag - python static site generator v0.01

by freddigbjk • 14 years ago

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tuananh• 14 years ago

RIP June 5, 2012. No descriptive Readme or whatsoever!?

freddigbjk• 14 years ago

The 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

stevekemp4• 14 years ago

Speaking 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.

keithpeter3• 14 years ago

I assumed the project was an art joke or something until I discovered some code

stevekemp4• 14 years ago

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

Perhaps unsurprisingly my own tool 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.

keithpeter3• 14 years 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...

stevekemp4• 14 years 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.)

llimllib• 14 years ago

Everybody and their uncle (including me) has written their own static site generator too, I don't understand why this is on HN?

lifeisstillgood2• 14 years ago

Have 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

wildtype2• 14 years ago

Isn't OP's "static site generator" run on a WSGI server?

aadlani• 14 years ago

No doc, no README ? it's maybe too early to promote it.

dktbs• 14 years ago

No docs aside from some cryptic nonsense in the readme, why is so much stuff like this hitting the frontpage on HN lately?

bcl• 14 years ago

Skip this and use Pelican - http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.1.1/ which supports reStructuredText, Markdown, and AsciiDoc.

angwal• 14 years ago

How does this compare to other static site generators,lets take hyde for example, any particular advantages?

wildtype2• 14 years ago

What a short markdown processor!

lhnz• 14 years ago

What hilariously cryptic commit messages...

Montag - python static site generator v0.01

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