an advanced version of mod_virgule. slowly working towards removing the hard-coded c out, and a basic scripting language that manipulates XML files in. finally fulfilling some of raph's original aims he outlined for mod_virgule on 13th November 1999.
less is more. actually, the number of lines of code has only gone up by 300 compared to the original version: that's because i still haven't finished removing things, and i keep adding silly little features :)
i loved the concept of creating xml tags so much that i went wild with it. for example the <listdir> tag will list the contents of a directory, and can be used to list the projects, or people, or articles etc. on a site. or anything _else_, for that matter.
i added an <include file="/site/.....html"> tag which does the equivalent of <!-- include .... --! > and much more.
the Certification system is no longer hard-coded, it's controlled by xml files in the schemas/ directory.
basically, you do not have to be a c-coder any more to customise mod_virgule. i really should do some documentation of the new tags - there are around 30, but hey, i love coding :)
contributions, discussions, ideas, bug reports, criticism, all welcome. just tell me what you want to do, and also how to get sourceforge.net to allow you to do it :)
now. who's going to be the first person to say, "oh no, not another scripting language?" :)
Luke, first I have to say that you're utterly maniacal... Top stuff!
However, we haven't heard much noise from Raph about this, so it seems for the time being that this is a fork. I have some patches for mod_virgule - my first ever for a C project - I knew I could only give my (mod_)virginity to Advogato ;-) - but where do I send them now?
Hopefully you guys can clear all of this up for us in discussion here - seeing more development on mod_virgule will be great.
satisfied? ;)
satisfied? ;)...mmm... no! *grin*
hiya jdub,
when i talked to raph a couple weeks back, it was to spark his interest again in this project. the original mod_virgule is tiny: at only 12,000 lines, it's just... really, really simple to maintain. for raph, that's a god-send, because he has other mainline projects such as libart, the ghostscript work etc.
so, yes this is a fork, which i specifically asked raph's permission: i didn't want to walk over his turf, so to speak. and this version has incompatibilities of the project "helpers/coders/etc" because i have moved them into two Certification types [one is staff/coders.xml, the other is staff/documenters.xml, which can be applied to people _and_ projects] that are easily fixed with either some more code _or_ with some perl scripts :) :)
i wonder if... i wonder if... i should put the "original" mod_virgule on the sourceforge.net site, too. both you and i should really ask raph about that, it's not my call. to make
patches. well, what are you waiting for? *grin* download the source from cvs.virgule.sourceforge.net, see if you're good to go!
all best, lukes
p.s. send me the patches, anyway: you could use sourceforge.net to do it, if you like, they have a patch submission procedure: http://sourceforge.net/patch/?group_id=12245
> wonder if... i wonder if... i should put the "original" mod_virgule > on the sourceforge.net site, too. both you and i should really ask > raph about that, it's not my call. to make
Why didn't you create a branch in the original cvs repository btw? It seemed to me raph wasn't opposed to that.
because... because i don't want to interfere with the original version of mod_virgule: raph mentioned that he would be unlikely to update to a codebase that he is not familiar with. also, i only have read-only public access to the original cvs repository. *shrug* :)
will (the new) advogato make it possible to write third party apps that
can post journal entries? for example, livejournal offers this useful
http method of posting.
if not, i would be glad to submit patches to the cvs code that allows
something like this.
reply here, or send me some mail at voltronw@yahoo.com.
well, as a matter of fact :) this is quite interesting. for the "remote profile" system 'm adding, i had to add client-side html code, which i hacked from mod_proxy [turns out that there is also code in gnu-pg but it's not apache-like].
so, yes: you could write a journal.so module that implements.. say.. a <journal:send> tag and a <journal:read> tag that submit and read livejournal data, calling the ap_proxy_html() function to send the required POST and GET requests.
that would be exceptionally cool.
i'll email you, perhaps we could take this onto a forum on the sourceforge thing, to avoid clutter here? virgule sf forums
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virgule, select download.
it's... a little bit different, and is _not_ compatible with the old version of mod_virgule. for example, authentication is done in /yourserverdir/acct/username/profile.xml and people's profiles are stored in /yourserverdir/person/username/profile.xml. this is so that it's possible to a) replace the user authentication with anything else (e.g. unix-like) b) it is possible to log in as a project, group (or anything else you care to create!)
Feel free to tell us more on mod_virgule when http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo.linuxcare.com.au%2F or http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fadvogato.org%2F have been cleaned up >:->
I doubt it's really libxml's fault
Daniel
oh, did i forget to mention? i can't write html for toffee!
so, thank you very much for the pointer :) [p.s. help!]
still can't write html, however other people can [thx daniel, thom, malx and Raphael].
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!
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