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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ikiwikiusers.mdwn | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn | 43 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/highlight/discussion.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/users/Christine_Spang.mdwn | 1 |
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ikiwikiusers.mdwn b/doc/ikiwikiusers.mdwn index db0d8cd9c..58dd51600 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwikiusers.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwikiusers.mdwn @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Projects & Organizations * [Pigro Network](http://www.pigro.net) is running a hg based ikiwiki. (And provides ikiwiki hosting for $10/m.) * [Cosin Homepage](http://cosin.ch) uses an Ikiwiki with a subversion repository. * [Bosco Free Orienteering Software](http://bosco.durcheinandertal.ch) +* [MIT Student Information Processing Board](http://sipb.mit.edu/) Personal sites and blogs ======================== diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn index fc5afebfd..f466b9399 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/cvs.mdwn @@ -2,20 +2,16 @@ This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]]. -* Diffs are against [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]. `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of `svn.pm`. -* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`. -* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: - * creates a repository, - * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), - * creates a small post-commit wrapper to prevent `cvs add <directory>` from being seen by ikiwiki's [[post-commit]] hook, - * configures the wrapper itself as a post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. -* [`cvsps`](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/) is required (`rcs_recentchanges()` and `rcs_diff()` need it to work). -* [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]] and [[!cpan String::ShellQuote]] are required (to safely keep `cvs` quiet and to safely escape commit messages, respectively). -* CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It might be possible to solve this problem with scripts like `commit_prep` and `log_accum` from CVS contrib. -* Due to the name of CVS's metadata directories, it's impossible to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn`. On case-insensitive filesystems it's also impossible to create `.../cvs/foo.mdwn`. Since the failure can have confusing effects on one's CVS checkout, perhaps the web interface should prevent the attempt. -* No testing or special-casing has been done with [[attachments|plugins/attachment]], but they'll probably need `cvs add -kb`. +### Installation and usage +7. Apply patches to [`IkiWiki.pm`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-IkiWiki.pm.diff) +and [`ikiwiki-makerepo`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-ikiwiki-makerepo.diff). +7. Rebuild and install ikiwiki. +7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]], [[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], and [cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like. +7. Download [`cvs.pm`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs.pm) into a suitable `$libdir/IkiWiki/Plugin`. +7. While setting up a wiki [[by hand|setup/byhand]], also specify `--libdir` until you get to the point where you have a setup file. (This ensures the CVS plugin is found and its settings stanza included.) +7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file. -Having a `$HOME/.cvsrc` isn't necessary. Sure does make using CVS more livable, though. Here's a good general-purpose one: +Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one: cvs -q checkout -P @@ -23,10 +19,19 @@ Having a `$HOME/.cvsrc` isn't necessary. Sure does make using CVS more livable, diff -u rdiff -u -Not knowing how the tests get set up, I blindly attempted to add subversion-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t`. They fail. But the plugin definitely works. :-) +### Implementation details +* Diffs are against [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]. `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of `svn.pm`. +* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`. +* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]: + * creates a repository, + * imports `$SRCDIR` into top-level module `ikiwiki` (vendor tag IKIWIKI, release tag PRE_CVS), + * creates a small post-commit wrapper to prevent `cvs add <directory>` from being seen by ikiwiki's [[post-commit]] hook (and avoid `cvs` locking against itself), + * configures the wrapper itself as a post-commit hook in `CVSROOT/loginfo`. +* CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It should be possible to solve this problem with NetBSD's `commit_prep` and `log_accum` scripts (see below). -### Code -* [`cvs.pm`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs.pm) -* [`cvs-IkiWiki.pm.diff`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-IkiWiki.pm.diff) -* [`cvs-ikiwiki-makerepo.diff`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-ikiwiki-makerepo.diff) -* [`cvs-t-file_pruned.t.diff`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-t-file_pruned.t.diff) +### To do +* Add automated tests. ([Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-t-file_pruned.t.diff) doesn't do the trick.) +* If the argument to `cvs add` smells like a binary file, `cvs add -kb` it (for [[plugins/attachment]] support). +* Don't slurp the entire `cvsps` output into memory (!). +* Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records. +* Perhaps prevent web edits from attempting to create `.../CVS/foo.mdwn` (and `.../cvs/foo.mdwn` on case-insensitive filesystems); thanks to the CVS metadata directory, the attempt will fail anyway (and much more confusingly) if we don't. diff --git a/doc/plugins/highlight/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/highlight/discussion.mdwn index 3ae6149bf..556b04145 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/highlight/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/highlight/discussion.mdwn @@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ Having trouble working out where to get the perl bindings for highlight. --[Mick > The perl bindings are hidden in `examples/swig` in highlight's source. > --[[Joey]] -Thanks for prompt reply. Now just need to work out how to get it to work with inline code. I can not find the 'format' plugin to enable it. --[Mick](http://www.lunix.com.au) +Thanks for prompt reply.All working. I will post on my site tonight and link here what I did on CentOS to make this work. --[Mick](http://www.lunix.com.au) diff --git a/doc/users/Christine_Spang.mdwn b/doc/users/Christine_Spang.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..223e9739d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/users/Christine_Spang.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Running ikiwiki on her [homepage](http://spang.cc/) and [blog](http://blog.spang.cc/). |