>>> For this to work with websetup and --dumpsetup, it needs to define the
>>> `meta_*` settings in the getsetup function.
+>>>>
+>>>> I think this will be problematic with the current implementation of this
+>>>> patch. The datatype here is an array of hash references, with each hash
+>>>> having a variable (and arbitrary) number of key/value pairs. I can't
+>>>> think of an intuitive way of implementing a way of editing such a
+>>>> datatype in the web interface, let alone registering the option in
+>>>> getsetup.
+>>>>
+>>>> Perhaps a limited set of defined meta values could be exposed via
+>>>> websetup (the obvious ones: author, copyright, license, etc.) -- [[Jon]]
>>>
>>> I also have some concerns about both these patches, since both throw
>>> a lot of redundant data at meta, which then stores it in a very redundant
>>> way. Specifically, meta populates a per-page `%metaheaders` hash
>>> as well as storing per-page metadata in `%pagestate`. So, if you have
->>> a wiki with a thousand pages, and you add a 1k site-wide license text,
+>>> a wiki with 10 thousand pages, and you add a 1k site-wide license text,
>>> that will bloat the memory usage of ikiwiki by in excess of 2
>>> megabytes. It will also cause ikiwiki to write a similar amount more data
>>> to its state file which has to be loaded back in each
>>> meta special-case the site-wide settings, not store them in these
>>> per-page data structures, and just make them be used if no per-page
>>> metadata of the given type is present. --[[Joey]]
+>>>>
+>>>> that should be easy enough to do. I will work on a patch. -- [[Jon]]
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