link to an alternative approach that I decided against

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn

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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ and changing the meaning of sort=title in 4.0, though).
 Gitweb:
 <http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sort-hooks>
 
+I briefly tried to turn *all* the current sort types into hook functions, and
+have some of them pre-registered, but decided that probably wasn't a good idea.
+That earlier version of the branch is also available for comparison:
+
+<http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sort-hooks-excessive>
+
 ## Documentation extracted from the branch
 
 ### sort hook (added to [[plugins/write]])