[webgen-users] Anybody using website templates?

Matthias Kirschner
2009-04-29T07:45:28Z

Hi Thomas,

* Thomas Leitner <t_leitner at gmx.at> [2009-04-20 19:42:51 +0200]:

>     Does anybody use the website template project?

I once did when I first tested webgen.
After that never again.

> Rational: I don''t think that many people use it and it is possible
to
> achieve the same thing via website styles only.

I think that is a good point. And I would have no problem if you drop
the website templates.

> Another rational: The next version of webgen will most certainly
> provide a facility for using local or *remote* tar archives (simple
> ones or gzipped ones). This will make it possibly to create a tar
> archive of a plugin or a style and provide it via ones website and
> other uses can use it via a CLI command like:
>
>     webgen apply http://my.example.com/webgen/blog-plugins.tgz
>
> And also: if a style can contain plugins or maybe even a whole website,
> the word `style` is not approriate anymore, I think. Would it be better
> to name this something like `package` then? Suggestions?!

Package or if you decide to drop the templates above you can call it
templates ;)

Best wishes,
Matthias

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