-- Add a small form at top and bottom of a blog to allow entering
- a title for a new item, that goes to a template to create the new page.
-- Should probably add params to control various rss fields like the blog
- title, its author email, its copyright info, etc.
+- Add Discussion and Edit links at the bottom of each inlined post.
+- It would be possible to support rss enclosures for eg, podcasts, pretty easily.
+Here is the last of those items. Using the meta plugin you can give the appropriate
+info, and the enclosure will be added to the entry. It will also add a <link /> tag
+at the top, but I don't know if this is necessary. It also includes a fix for
+when make is used without PREFIX.
+
+<http://jameswestby.net/scratch/podcast.diff>
+
+-- JamesWestby
+
+ Hmm. Not quite how I'd envisioned podcasts would work, my idea was
+ more that the sound files would be kept inside the wiki, and the
+ inline plugin could be told to eg, inline *.mp3, and would add
+ those to the rss feed as enclosures. Maybe you'd also inline some
+ regular blog pages to describe the files or the like.
+
+ Do you think that would work or that it's worth pursuing that
+ approach? I haven't looked at podcasts enough to know if that
+ method would be technically feasable; for one thing it would limit
+ the blog items for podcasts to just having an enclosure but no
+ description.
+
+ Even if that doesn't work and pages are needed to desribe the items
+ like you did, it still seems better to keep the podcast items in
+ the wiki..
+
+ --[[Joey]]
+
+That's fair enough. I'm a little unsure of how it all works, so I just did the
+simplest thing I could.
+
+You don't need a description for podcasts it seems. So there's nothing stopping
+you there.
+
+I have another patch that I think does what you want. It only supports .mp3 files,
+.ogg or similar could be added easily.
+
+It has the disadvantage that the filename is all there is to go on, as I can't
+think of a way to associate any information with the mp3 file. I don't
+want to add a dependency on a IDv3 tag library. You could add another file
+.mp3.info with the title/description in.
+
+It's obviously up to you which way you want to go.
+
+<http://jameswestby.net/scratch/podcast2.diff>
+
+-- JamesWestby
+
+ Hmm, this could be taken a step further, and assume that if
+ IkiWiki::pagetype doesn't return a defined page type for the page
+ in the blog, then no matter the extension it should be fed into the
+ rss feed in an enclosure. This would allow for not only podcasting,
+ but vidcasting and a form of photo blogging. Or even an rss feed
+ containing the source of ikiwiki. ;-)
+
+ --[[Joey]]
+
+Yes I agree that this would be great, but rss2 spec says that enclosure
+must have mime-type. How about I use the File::MimeInfo trick from the
+first patch to do this? I don't know why I didn't do this before.
+This will probably clean the code up a little as well.
+
+What do you think of the change that when using raw, if the filetype is not
+known it adds an entry anyway? I did this so that the entries appear if
+this mode is used. It might be that this is not necessary, as can we assume
+that people wont use raw if they want to pod/vid/whatevercast?
+
+-- JamesWestby
+
+ Using File::Mimeinfo makes sense to me.
+
+ I think it probably makes sense to make the (html) blog page
+ add an entry with a link to the file that's in the enclosure in the
+ rss feed. Whether or not raw is being used.
+
+ Note: I'm still unsure about whether podcasts should support
+ descriptions for the enclosures or not. Here's an early podcast
+ that did use descriptions:
+ <http://static.userland.com/gems/backend/gratefulDead.xml>
+ Here's a contemporary podcast, which also uses descriptions:
+ <http://www.lugradio.org/episodes.rss>
+
+ The podcast client I use certianly doesn't care about the
+ descriptions. But it's podracer, probably not the thing most
+ podcast users use. :-)
+
+ --[[Joey]]
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