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[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / inline:_numerical_ordering_by_title.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/inline:_numerical_ordering_by_title.mdwn b/doc/todo/inline:_numerical_ordering_by_title.mdwn
index f76f8ca4fc41f82a078cd62c7111ae520edd2fe0..95511d99885439f4e7f16a106265702df2d273a7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/inline:_numerical_ordering_by_title.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/inline:_numerical_ordering_by_title.mdwn
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ anymore.
 
 Do you have any idea how to workaround that issue? --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
 
+> Delete all files. Add files back one at a time, committing after adding
+> each file. Sort by date. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> The simplest solutions are the best :D Thanks for the hint! I didn't
+>> want to do it before, because I was affaid that my Subversion keeps
+>> old date of creation of file. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
 > Maybe you can rename `9.mdwn` to `09.mdwn`? See `rename(1)`, it renames multiple files
 > in one go. --[[buo]]
 
@@ -49,10 +56,18 @@ I have also 2 considerations for inline sorting:
 
 1. Maybe changing name of `sort` parameter to `sortby` or `sortkey` will
    be good idea?
+
+   > No, that would break existing wikis. --[[Joey]]
+   >> It's no problem. You just have `ikiwiki-transition` utility :D --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
 1. Maybe you should use `title` sort key for title from meta plugin and `name`, 
    `filename`, `page` or `pagename` for page names? In the future you can also
    sort by meta author, license or another key.
 
+   > There are many places in ikiwiki that do not use meta title info and
+   > could. I'd prefer to deal with that issue as a whole, not here,
+   > --[[Joey]]
+
 --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
 
     --- inline.pm-orig  2008-09-02 09:53:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -84,6 +99,12 @@ I have also 2 considerations for inline sorting:
 
         if (yesno($params{reverse})) {
 
+> To users, "sort" already determines the type of sort. It can be by title,
+> or by date, etc. Adding a separate "sorttype" value is thus fairly
+> confusing. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> OK. I will be more careful when I play with inline plugin :) --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
 ---
 
 Joey, have you forgotten about that request? ;) --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
@@ -97,9 +118,28 @@ Joey, have you forgotten about that request? ;) --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
 
 > --[[Will]]
 
+>> I"m not comfortable with tossing out perl's default collator and trying
+>> to maintain some other one going forward. Especially not for such an
+>> edge case. --[[Joey]]
+
 >> Hi Will! Your idea looks interesting for me, but I'm affraid that it's too big
 >> change in Ikiwiki... Maybe I'm wrong? ;) What do you think, Joey? --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
 
+>>> It isn't that big a change.  It is just supplying a sort order to the sort.  The
+>>> patch is a little larger because I then went through and made that sort
+>>> order available in other places where it makes sense.  (Looking at the
+>>> patch again briefly, I should have also used it in the `map` plugin.)
+>>>
+>>> If you wanted a simple patch, you could just move the `titlecmp` function
+>>> into the inline plugin and only use it there.  The problem with that is that
+>>> it only fixes the inline plugin. -- [[Will]]
+
+>>>> Will, I agree with you that it's improved way of sort order. But on the other
+>>>> hand I prefer to be careful when I change something in a several places,
+>>>> because I don't want to break any working things when I fix one thing.
+>>>> I hope that Joey agree with us too and all Ikiwiki users will be happy
+>>>> after applying your patch ;) --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
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