X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/02430a23a65927916603213808f086bf5af8f103..f6d7d1ce762375140ce0eec7eda3e037c6873986:/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn index 8b1487df2..255f0ccf6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -For one type of plugin, see [[todo/PluggableRenderers]]. - A plugin system should ideally support things like: * [[todo/lists]] of pages, of mising pages / broken links, of registered users, etc @@ -9,19 +7,17 @@ A plugin system should ideally support things like: * Wiki stats, such as the total number of pages, total number of links, most linked to pages, etc, etc. * wiki info page, giving the ikiwiki version etc * would it be useful to reimplement the hyperestradier search integration as a plugin? +* Support [[RecentChanges]] as a regular page containing a plugin that updates each time there is a change, and statically builds the recent changes list. (Would this be too expensive/inflexible? There might be other ways to do it as a plugin, like making all links to RecentChanges link to the cgi and have the cgi render it on demand.) * etc +* For another type of plugin, see [[todo/PluggableRenderers]]. -Another, separate plugin system that already (mostly) exists in ikiwiki is the RCS backend, which allows writing modules to drive other RCS systems than subversion. +Another, separate plugin system that already (mostly) exists in ikiwiki is +the RCS backend, which allows writing modules to drive other RCS systems +than subversion. ## preprocessor plugins -Considering ikiwiki plugins, one idea I have is to make the [[PreProcessorDirective]]s be a plugin. A setting in the config file would enable various plusins, which are perl modules, that each provide one or more preprocessor directives. - -Since preprocessing happens before htmlization but after a page is loaded and linkified, it should be possible to use it to create something like a link map or lists, or a page index. Page inlining and rss generation is already done via preprocessor directives and seems a natureal as a plugin too. - -Note that things like a link map or a broken link list page would need to be updated whenever a set (or all) pages change; the %inlinepages hash already allows for pages to register this, although it might need to be renamed. - -I need to look at the full range of things that other wikis use their plugin systems for, but preprocessor directives as plugins certianly seems useful, even if it's not a complete solution. +done ## case study: Moin Moin plugins @@ -33,6 +29,3 @@ See * *parsers* and *formatters* are basically what I've been calling [[PluggableRenderers]]. MoinMoin separates these, so that a page is parsed to (presumbly) some intermediate form before being output as html or some other form. That's a nice separation, but what to do about things like markdown that are both a parser and a formatter? * *macros* and *processors* are analagous to preprocessor directives. A processor can operate on a large block of text though. * *themes* should be irrellevant (ikiwiki has [[templates]]). - -## case study: pybloxsom plugins -