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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn | 15 |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn index 7129a44ac..82670250e 100644 --- a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn @@ -217,6 +217,16 @@ definitions essentially. >>> For this to work with websetup and --dumpsetup, it needs to define the >>> `meta_*` settings in the getsetup function. +>>>> +>>>> I think this will be problematic with the current implementation of this +>>>> patch. The datatype here is an array of hash references, with each hash +>>>> having a variable (and arbitrary) number of key/value pairs. I can't +>>>> think of an intuitive way of implementing a way of editing such a +>>>> datatype in the web interface, let alone registering the option in +>>>> getsetup. +>>>> +>>>> Perhaps a limited set of defined meta values could be exposed via +>>>> websetup (the obvious ones: author, copyright, license, etc.) -- [[Jon]] >>> >>> I also have some concerns about both these patches, since both throw >>> a lot of redundant data at meta, which then stores it in a very redundant @@ -232,6 +242,5 @@ definitions essentially. >>> meta special-case the site-wide settings, not store them in these >>> per-page data structures, and just make them be used if no per-page >>> metadata of the given type is present. --[[Joey]] - ->>>> Thanks for the review - these are all valid points. I'll get working ->>>> on a revised patch. -- [[Jon]] +>>>> +>>>> that should be easy enough to do. I will work on a patch. -- [[Jon]] |