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Re: Ikiwiki backport



Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> writes:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> I like the idea of uploading the squeeze-backports package as an
>> indicator that it has been reviewed and is believed to work fine on
>> squeeze, even though it does not differ in any significant way from the
>> wheezy package.
> Nowadays I think similarly.

I tend to agree, which is why I'm proposing this for backports.

> If the package introduces notable new features I am fine with it, if you just
> want to have the same version as in wheezy I am not (I haven't checked the
> changelogs of ikiwiki yet).

The big and notable feature that I want from a newer version is the
ability to nest directives within the wiki (first available in version
3.20110431). 

To explain my use case a bit, I'm building out a blog, were I want to
have pages inline with a more link. This is achieved with the "more"
plugin, and gives you a directive where you can wrap the part of the
page you don't want inlined (everything after the teaser). The wiki
markup defines directive blocks with triple double-quotes (eg: [[!more
""" """]] ), The problem was that if you wanted to use another directive
like format for code snippets, (eg: [[!format bash """  """]] ), the
closure of that directive would also close the previously open more
directive.

Starting with 3.20110431 you can nest directives with something like
[[!more text=<<MORE  MORE]].

I'm sure there are plenty of other use cases for nesting directives, but
that's the current notable feature that I'm looking for.

~~nat

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