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-rw-r--r--doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn5
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn17
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn12
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/tmplvars_plugin.mdwn23
6 files changed, 71 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn b/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn
index 40a334032..9eb8e5364 100644
--- a/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ This [[patch]] adds a space before the forward-slash in the the parent links. Th
>>> Yes, please. This seems to be something a lot of people want to customize. (I certainly do -- a forward slash only looks natural to Unix users) --[[sabr]]
+>> Joey, would I be right to summarize your position on this as "people who
+>> want to change the text of the templates should maintain their own version
+>> of the `.tmpl` files"? It's not clear to me how this todo item could be
+>> closed in a way acceptable to you, except perhaps as WONTFIX. --[[smcv]]
+
Before:
ikiwiki/ todo/ Add space before slash in parent links
diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn
index 893498f2c..492a8d747 100644
--- a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn
@@ -54,3 +54,20 @@ my github ikiwiki fork):
* title
-- [[Jon]]
+
+> This doesn't support multiple-argument meta directives like
+> `link=x rel=y`, or meta directives with special side-effects like
+> `updated`.
+>
+> The first could be solved (if you care) by a syntax like this:
+>
+> meta_defaults => [
+> { copyright => "© me" },
+> { link => "about:blank", rel => "silly", },
+> ]
+>
+> The second could perhaps be solved by invoking `meta::preprocess` from within
+> `scan` (which might be a simplification anyway), although this is complicated
+> by the fact that some (but not all!) meta headers are idempotent.
+>
+> --[[smcv]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
index 968279113..e302a49ed 100644
--- a/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/enable-htaccess-files.mdwn
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ access and such .htaccess files should not be accessible through wiki cgi. Of co
> See [[!debbug 447267]] for a patch for this.
+>> It looks to me as though this functionality won't be included in ikiwiki
+>> unless someone who wants it takes responsibility for updating the patch
+>> from that Debian bug to be applicable to current versions, so that there's a
+>> setup file parameter for extra filenames to allow, defaulting to none
+>> (i.e. a less simplistic patch than the one at the top of this page).
+>> Joey, is this an accurate summary? --[[smcv]]
+
---
bump! I would like to see some form of this functionality included in ikiwiki. I use a patched version, but
diff --git a/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn
index 4ac4e2e25..8c4b45141 100644
--- a/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/language_definition_for_the_meta_plugin.mdwn
@@ -81,4 +81,16 @@ This may be useful for sites with a few pages in different languages, but no ful
> Please resolve lang somewhere reusable rather than within meta plugin: It is certainly usable outside
> the scope of the meta plugin as well. --[[JonasSmedegaard]]
+>> I don't see any problem with having this in meta? meta is on by default, and
+>> other plugins are free to use it or even depend on it (e.g. inline does).
+>>
+>> My only comments on this patch beyond what Joey said are that the page
+>> language could usefully go into `$pagestate{$page}{meta}{lang}` for other
+>> plugins to be able to see it (is that what you meant?), and that
+>> restricting to 2 characters is too restrictive (HTML 4.01 mentions
+>> `en`, `en-US` and `i-navajo` as possible language codes).
+>> This slightly complicates parsing the locale to get the default language:
+>> it'll need `tr/_/-/` after the optional `.encoding` is removed.
+>> --[[smcv]]
+
[[!tag wishlist patch plugins/meta translation]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn b/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn
index 770c4825a..29f28ca32 100644
--- a/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn
@@ -52,3 +52,10 @@ Remaining TODOs:
> lost it. --[[Joey]]
Resent. --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> Debian now has Mail::Sender, Mail::SendEasy, and Email::Sender
+> (which, according to its dpkg description, "replaces the old and sometimes
+> problematic Email::Send library, which did a decent job at handling very
+> simple email sending tasks, but was not suitable for serious use, for a
+> variety of reasons"). Are any of those any better? It's unfortunate that
+> there doesn't seem to be a clear "best practice"... --[[smcv]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/tmplvars_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/tmplvars_plugin.mdwn
index 644cf23aa..2fe819682 100644
--- a/doc/todo/tmplvars_plugin.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/tmplvars_plugin.mdwn
@@ -2,6 +2,29 @@ A simple plugin to allow per-page customization of a template by passing paramat
[[!tag patch]]
+> The implementation looks fine to me (assuming it works with current ikiwiki),
+> apart from the "XXX" already noted in the patch. The design could reasonably
+> be considered premature generalization, though - how often do you actually
+> need to define new tmplvars?
+>
+> As for the page/destpage/preview thing, it would be good if the preprocess
+> hook could distinguish between software-supplied and user-supplied
+> parameters (the [[plugins/tag]] plugin could benefit from this too). Perhaps
+> the IkiWiki core could be modified so that
+> `hook(type => "preprocess", splitparams => 1, ...)` would invoke preprocess
+> with { page => "foo", destpage => "bar", ... } as a special first argument,
+> and the user-supplied parameters as subsequent arguments? Then plugins like
+> tag could use:
+>
+> my $ikiparams = shift;
+> my %params = @_;
+>
+> add_tags($ikiparams->{page}, keys %params);
+>
+> --[[smcv]]
+
+----
+
#!/usr/bin/perl
package IkiWiki::Plugin::tmplvars;