Ah, I get it. That makes sense.

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:32:50 PM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote:
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> On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:07:33 PM UTC+2, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Niphlod. I'm intrigued by the diffbook project, so I'll take a 
>> look at your github repo. My main interest is in streamlining my workflow 
>> (not just webdev, but my academic research and teaching as well) around a 
>> large folder of flat files that, when changed, will trigger other events 
>> (like publishing to a blog) automatically.
>>
>> I think you're right that I've confused this kind of flat-file storage 
>> with static site generators like Nikola. So I'll have to think more about 
>> it.
>>
>> When you suggest auth.wiki() you mean to publish text in blog format, 
>> right? It doesn't have anything built in to pull in text files--or does it?
>>
>> Ian
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> Nope, it doesn't. I was suggesting that in the case you need to have an 
> actual app running that reads something and outputs the HTML every time it 
> gets hit by a request.
>
> That exactly the opposite of the blogging/generator "pattern" of most of 
> those libraries/projects that you referred to, that needs something 
> "external" (i.e. a process watching over files, you manually launching it, 
> etc etc) to trigger a rebuild that outputs the HTML one-time-only (and then 
> save it to disk and/or ship to a static hosting website)
>
> diffbook has no source-code on github: as said before it's a "frozen" 
> version of a "real" app that I freeze with wget and then ship to a static 
> hosting platform (in this case, github pages). 
>

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