doc/plugins/contrib/postal/discussion.mdwn



It seems like the filter 'postal-accept.pl' I wrote doesn't refresh thoroughly enough.  When a comment is added  it calls
     IkiWiki::add_depends($page,$comments_page);

And then after adding the actual comment, it ends with
     IkiWiki::refresh();
     IkiWiki::saveindex();

Sure enough, the page being commented on is refreshed, but not any inline pages (e.g. tags pages, blog top level) that contain it.
Is there a way to recursively refresh? Or should it work that way by default. I guess it is some part of the api that I don't understand,
since I think not many people grub about in the internals of ikiwiki this way.
It would be nice to figure this out, doing a full rebuild every time I get a blog comment is not that fun.
[[DavidBremner]]

Ikiwiki currently doesn't have support for transitive dependencies.
This is discussed deep inside [[todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies]]
and in [[todo/inlines_inheriting_links]].
FYI, the [[plugins/comments]] plugin avoids this problem by only showing the
comments on the page, and not on pages that inline it. --[[Joey]]

Ok, thanks for the speedy response. I guess I should do the same thing.
[[DavidBremner]]