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+I haven't settled on a comfortable/flexible/quick development environment for hacking on ikiwiki.  The VM I host my web pages on is not fast enough to use for RAD and ikiwiki. For developing plugins, it seems a bit heavy-weight to clone the entire ikiwiki repository. I haven't managed to get into a habit of running a cloned version of ikiwiki from it's own dir, rather than installing it (If that's even possible).  The ikiwiki site source (source ./doc) is quite large and not a great testbed for hacking (e.g. if you are working on a plugin you need a tailored test suite for that plugin).
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+Does anyone have a comfortable setup or tips they would like to share? -- [[Jon]]
+
+> I've just been setting `libdir` in an existing wiki's setup file. When the plugin's in a decent state, I copy it over to a git checkout and commit. For the plugins I've been working on (auth and VCS), this has been just fine. Are you looking for something more? --[[schmonz]]
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 > considered [[done]].  
 
 I have a use case for this, a site composed of blogs and wikis, templates divided in three categories : common, blog and wiki. The only solution I found is maintaining hard links, being able to have multiple template dirs would obviously be better. -- Changaco
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+> [[plugins/underlay]] used to allow adding extra templatedirs, but Joey
+> removed that functionality when he made templates search the wiki's
+> own `templates` directory.
+>
+> You can get a 3-level hierarchy like this:
+>
+> * instance-specific overrides: $srcdir/templates
+> * common to the entire site: a directory that is the value of all
+>   instances' `templatedir` parameters
+> * common to every ikiwiki in the world: /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates
+>   (implicitly searched)
+>
+> (by "instance" I mean an instance of ikiwiki - a .setup file, basically.)
+>
+> For a more complex hierarchy you'd need the old [[plugins/underlay]]
+> functionality, i.e. you'd need to (ask Joey to) revert the patch that
+> removed it. For instance, if anyone has a hierarchy like this, then
+> they need the old functionality back in order to split the template
+> search path for the things marked `(???)`:
+>
+>     every ikiwiki in the world (/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates)
+>     \--- your site (???)
+>         \--- your blogs (???)
+>              \--- travel blog ($srcdir/templates)
+>              \--- code blog ($srcdir/templates)
+>         \--- your wikis (???)
+>              \--- travel wiki ($srcdir/templates)
+>              \--- code wiki ($srcdir/templates)
+>
+> This looks pretty hypothetical to me, though...
+> --[[smcv]]