Hi, I wrote a multilingual static website generator for my website<http://meirkriheli.com>(pages + blog): https://github.com/MeirKriheli/statirator
Might wanna give it a try, didn't get a chance to document it good enough yet, this Open Knesset thingy is keeping me quite busy. Cheers. On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org>wrote: > Hi all, > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:11:35 +0200 > Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > [ I am going to write this message in English because it is easier for > me to > > express myself in such Technical matters in it. Feel free to reply in > Hebrew. > > ] > > > > Well, I've taken a look at both Ikiwiki and Jekyll for two projects: > > > > 1. Ikiwiki for the Freenode's ##programming channel FAQ: > > > > * > http://code.wikia.com/wiki/User:Shlomif/Freenode_programming_channel_FAQ > > (present location - requires loggging in to get rid of the intrusive ads, > > which is why we want to switch to something else). > > > > * https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ - new > source > > > > 2. Jekyll for http://vim.begin-site.org/ - the Vim Beginner's Site > (some links > > are broken and the content is incomplete but feel free to link to the > existing > > resources). > > > > ----------- > > > > Installing Ikiwiki involved chasing some CPAN dependencies, which was > not as > > straightforward because I'm a Mageia Linux packager and am committed to > > packaging them as Mageia .rpms, but it was doable based on the > perl-Ikiwiki > > rpm from Fedora. (Should be easier if your distribution already packaged > it > > or if you just use cpan/cpanm/CPANPLUS). > > > > Installing Jekyll was more straightforward because I defaulted to use > "sudo > > gem install jekyll" (and then some missing dependencies). > > > > Now the problem I had with Ikiwiki proved to be an errorprone process > for me. > > I eventually was able to get it working, but it took a while. Jekyll on > the > > other hand just worked and is also pretty fast (at least here on my Core > i3 > > machine). Jekyll is also cool, simple and straightforward and has better > > support for complex templates. > > > > While the new ##programming FAQ will be kept in Ikiwiki for now, I think > I'll > > go with Jekyll for www.linux.org.il. The main advantage Ikiwiki has over > > Jekyll is a server-side web interface, so if it's a deal breaker for > anyone, > > please shout. > > > > So I think I’ll start converting http://www.linux.org.il/ to Jekyll > barring > > any objections. I'm CCing Amichai here, because I would like to tutor > him in > > the new CMS (Jekyll) instead of the ad-hoc existing one. > > > > Unfortunately, as it turns out, I ran into some problems with Jekyll, as > this > conversation on #jekyll on Freenode proves (I am rindolf): > > [QUOTE] > <rindolf> Hi all. > <rindolf> I'd like to share some frustration I have with using Jekyll. I > previously used http://web-cpan.shlomifish.org/latemp/ , which is my own > creation based on Website Meta Language and other technologies, and I found > some things absent in Jekyll like a navigation menu or a breadcrumbs trail > using it. Now, when googling for doing that in Jekyll, I usually ran into > blogs > posts or Stackoverflow threads and not actual plugins. > <rindolf> And Jekyll seems kinda opaque to me (though admittedly I didn't > try > to read its code). > <rindolf> Does anyone feel the same way too? > <lietu> well, having only used jekyll for a while, certain aspects are a > bit > unclear and I feel there is a bit too much marketing hype around it, but it > works fine, and the information is eventually easy enough to find > <lietu> for example I assumed from the information I found about Jekyll > before > starting on it, that it would by default support LESS compiling, JS, CSS > and > HTML minifying, etc. .. ended up having to set up plugins and code a bit > myself > to get all that working .. having never coded a single line of ruby > before, it > was a bit painful > <lietu> but if they end up actually putting more of that kind > of stuff in the core, or make proper plugins for all that and link to them > easily, it will be a lot better > <rindolf> lietu: I see. > <lietu> .. oh, and the list of dependencies for my whole package is now > ridiculously large, to build my website with jekyll, using google closure > compiler, jekyll-asset-pipeline, lessc from node (the easiest dependency > really), jekyll-press nad jekyll-minimagic requires me to install half of > the > packages available in the repositories to get it running > <rindolf> lietu: I see. > [/QUOTE] > > So it does not seem very encouraging, as part of the reason why I don't > want > to use Latemp ( http://web-cpan.shlomifish.org/latemp/ ) is due to its > relatively large amount of dependencies . There's a list of other static > website > generators here: > http://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-generators.htmland it > does not include my own (yet), but includes ttree which I have heard of > before > and ikiwiki, which I also covered here. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs > > XSLT is the number one cause of programmers’ suicides since Visual Basic > 1.0. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > Discussions@hamakor.org.il > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions > -- Meir Kriheli http://meirkriheli.com
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