Posy-0.01

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Changes for version 0.01

(12 Dec 2004) posy_one Generate one file (not inside the data dir) using Posy. It's a hack, and probably needs to be done as a proper overriding plugin, but it sort of works.
(12 Dec 2004) posy_static and Posy::Plugin::GenStatic Posy::Plugin::GenStatic replaces the "run" method, and then runs around in a lot of loops.
(12 Dec 2004) changes to posy.cgi Moved posy.cgi out of the scripts directory, since it shouldn't be installed like a script. Also made two versions of it; a vanilla version (posy.cgi) which has no plugins, and a full version (posy_all.cgi) which has all the plugins, and has debugging enabled.
(12 Dec 2004) Posy::Plugin::FlavourMenu
(11 Dec 2004) Posy::Plugin::DynamicCss
(11 Dec 2004) Posy::Plugin::ThemeCss This sets variables in $flow_state which can then be used in flavour templates.
(11 Dec 2004) removing redundancies Changed some comments and removed unneeded methods
(11 Dec 2004) split append_entry Split the append_entry method into two parts, so that future plugins (such as this_flavour) could alter the entry after it had been rendered, but before it had been added to the page data.
(11 Dec 2004) Posy::Plugin::YamlConfig This was an easy way of enabling configuration values to be hashes, which is needed for things like ThemeCss and FlavourMenu. The downside is that it requires one to install YAML, but I'd rather have that than have to reinvent the wheel. And besides, if one uses Module::Build one has probably installed YAML anyway.
(11 Dec 2004) tweaking documentation
(11 Dec 2004) optional testing of dist + plugins Since certain plugins use extra modules (for example, Text::Template is used by Posy::Plugin::TextTemplate) then both the Test::Distribution test and the plugins tests would fail if those modules weren't installed. Therefore these tests now check if those modules are installed, and skip themselves if they aren't. This is good because the whole idea of putting certain functionality into "standard" plugins is so that the plugins can be optional, and thus their dependencies can be optional.
(11 Dec 2004) added Posy::Plugin::ShortBody
(11 Dec 2004) improved flavour template search Now it looks for an alternative path-type before it looks for a template with no path-type. Alternative path-types are: top_entry -> entry, top -> category.
(11 Dec 2004) improved reindexing index_entries was always reading the cache even when reindex was forced. Which seemed a bit silly to me.
(11 Dec 2004) fix CGI param problem It wasn't reading CGI parameters properly because I'd given it keywords and that was all it found. Probably some subtlety with when the "use CGI" command was done. No matter. I didn't really need those keywords anyway.
(11 Dec 2004) added Posy::Plugin::TextToHTML Which uses HTML::TextToHTML module.
(10 Dec 2004) a few more tweaks
- make select_by_path include anything below the path
- made actions and entry_actions explicit in posy.cgi
- removed dump from the default actions
(10 Dec 2004) added TODO to manifest
(10 Dec 2004) more tweaking
(10 Dec 2004) tweaking to get tests right
(10 Dec 2004) testing TextTemplate plugin Wrote proper tests for TextTemplate plugin. Also added some extra stuff to path parsing.
(10 Dec 2004) first plugin TextTemplate Had to split Posy into Posy and Posy::Core to get the plugins to work; this was because I wasn't really paying attention to the plugin implementation of Module::Starter and why Module::Starter itself only implemented the "import" method.
(9 Dec 2004) fixing up flavours Now the only default flavour is the error flavour. The problem with how it was before, it meant that one couldn't override the default 'html' flavour with a flavour file. Much simpler to just have a default error flavour; and it isn't really a problem for the user because it isn't as if the distro isn't providing a default 'html' flavour, it just isn't providing it inside the Posy module itself, it's in the flavours directory. Also slightly altered the way the page body data is built up.
(9 Dec 2004) getting posy.cgi to work This involved first actually writing posy.cgi, then fixing a number of problems, such as with "use lib" and with "content_type" and with not finding files, and with various warnings.
(9 Dec 2004) changing debug_level from param to init The debug_level is now set at run/new, not while parsing params; this is because it is less messy this way, and if you're debugging, you would be altering code anyway, so you might as well alter the init code.
(9 Dec 2004) updating todo
(8 Dec 2004) fix url var Use the CGI url() by default, to pass to templates.
(8 Dec 2004) improved config stuff
(8 Dec 2004) initial checkin This is a website content manager (and blog) inspired by blosxom. I decided to roll my own because there were certain fundamental problems with blosxom, and different fundamental problems with Blosxom3. This is written for my needs, but others may find it useful.