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diff --git a/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn b/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn index 94f022e22..0b4e555c1 100644 --- a/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn @@ -24,3 +24,9 @@ I must be missing something obvious, but the [[ikiwiki development environment t Cheers, [[Francois|fmarier]] + +> I updated the [[ikiwiki development environment tips]] page with my +> approach to running ikiwiki from the git checkout (with changes). For +> the templates, also make sure that you do not have custom templates in +> your src dir as they will be used instead of those from the template +> dir if found. --GB diff --git a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn index 91ccc6d6e..f9c584159 100644 --- a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn @@ -42,3 +42,27 @@ Does anyone have a comfortable setup or tips they would like to share? -- [[Jon] > needed, since it is preconfigured to use the templates and underlays > from ikiwiki's source repository. > --[[Joey]] + +> I work with Ikiwiki from the git checkout directory the following way. +> +> * instead of running ikiwiki, I wrote the following `mykiwiki` shell script, +> that also allows me to use my custom lib-ifited multimarkdown: + + #!/bin/sh + + MMDSRC="$HOME/src/multimarkdown/lib" + IKIWIKISRC="$HOME/src/ikiwiki" + PLUGINS="$HOME/src/ikiplugins" + + /usr/bin/perl -I"$MMDSRC" -I"$IKIWIKISRC/blib/lib" -I"$PLUGINS" "$IKIWIKISRC/ikiwiki.out" -libdir "$IKIWIKISRC" "$@" + +> * I also have an installed ikiwiki from Debian unstable, from which I only use the base wiki, so my `.setup` has the following configs: + + # additional directory to search for template files + templatedir => '/home/oblomov/src/ikiwiki/templates', + # base wiki source location + underlaydir => '/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki', + # extra library and plugin directory + libdir => '/home/oblomov/src/ikiwiki', + +> Hope that helps --GB |