* `postform` - Set to "yes" to enable a form to post new pages to a
blog.
* `postformtext` - Set to specify text that is displayed in a postform.
-* `rootpage` - Enable the postform, and allows controling where
+* `rootpage` - Enables the postform, and allows controling where
newly posted pages should go, by specifiying the page that
they should be a [[SubPage]] of.
[[!template id=plugin name=cvs core=0 author="[[schmonz]]"]]
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=schmonz author="[[schmonz]]"]]
+
This plugin allows ikiwiki to use [[!wikipedia desc="CVS" Concurrent Versions System]] as an [[rcs]].
-### Installation and usage
-7. Apply patches to [`IkiWiki.pm`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-IkiWiki.pm.diff)
-and [`ikiwiki-makerepo`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-ikiwiki-makerepo.diff).
-7. Rebuild and install ikiwiki.
+### Usage
7. Install [cvsps](http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/), [[!cpan IPC::Cmd]], [[!cpan String::ShellQuote]], and [cvsweb](http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html) or the like.
-7. Download [`cvs.pm`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs.pm) into a suitable `$libdir/IkiWiki/Plugin`.
-7. While setting up a wiki [[by hand|setup/byhand]], also specify `--libdir` until you get to the point where you have a setup file. (This ensures the CVS plugin is found and its settings stanza included.)
7. Adjust CVS-related parameters in your setup file.
Consider creating `$HOME/.cvsrc` if you don't have one already; the plugin doesn't need it, but you yourself might. Here's a good general-purpose one:
rdiff -u
### Implementation details
-* Diffs are against [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]. `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of `svn.pm`.
+* `cvs.pm` started life as a copy of [[3.14159|news/version_3.14159]]'s `svn.pm`.
* `IkiWiki.pm:wiki_file_prune_regexps` avoids copying CVS metadata into `$DESTDIR`.
* [[ikiwiki-makerepo]]:
* creates a repository,
* CVS multi-directory commits happen separately; the post-commit hook sees only the first directory's changes in time for [[recentchanges|plugins/recentchanges]]. The next run of `ikiwiki --setup` will correctly re-render such a recentchanges entry. It should be possible to solve this problem with NetBSD's `commit_prep` and `log_accum` scripts (see below).
### To do
-* Add automated tests. ([Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t`](http://www.netbsd.org/~schmonz/ikiwiki-cvs/cvs-t-file_pruned.t.diff) doesn't do the trick.)
+* Add automated tests. (Blindly adding svn-like tests to `t/file_pruned.t` doesn't do the trick.)
* If the argument to `cvs add` smells like a binary file, `cvs add -kb` it (for [[plugins/attachment]] support).
* Don't slurp the entire `cvsps` output into memory (!).
* Instead of resource-intensively scraping changesets with `cvsps`, have `ikiwiki-makerepo` set up NetBSD-like `log_accum` and `commit_prep` scripts that coalesce and keep records of commits. `cvsps` can be used as a fallback for repositories without such records.
\[[!inline pages="internal(recentchanges/change_*) and
!author(joey) and !author(http://joey.kitenet.net*)"
template=recentchanges show=0]]
+
+If you want to generate feeds for the RecentChanges page, you have to use
+[[`rss`_or_`atom`_in_the_setup_file|/todo/minor adjustment to setup documentation for recentchanges feeds]].
I think ikiwiki is more suitable for VPS/dedicated server. Shared hosting doesn't fit.
I just (2009/04/27) installed ikiwiki on DreamHost and the CPAN instructions here are unnecessarily complicated. I used "cpan" instead of "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and had no trouble with that portion of the install. --[[schmonz]]
+
+After tiring of managing things by hand, I've switched to using
+pkgsrc as an unprivileged user. This uses a bit more disk for my
+own copies of perl, python, etc., but in exchange I can `cd
+.../pkgsrc/www/ikiwiki && make install` and everything just works.
+Plus I get all the benefits of a package system, like easy uninstalling
+and being notified of outdated or insecure software.
+
+The only catch: sometimes the package dependency tree gets too deep
+for DreamHost's user process limit, resulting in build death. I
+work around this by resuming the build partway down the tree, then
+trying again from whatever I was actually trying to install.
+--[[schmonz]]
loop has suddenly become O(N^2) to the number of pages, which is something
to avoid..
+> I was also thinking about this (I've been playing with some stuff based on the
+> `remove-pagespec-merge` branch). A hash, by itself, is not optimal because
+> the dependency list holds two things: page names and page specs. The hash would
+> work well for the page names, but you'll still need to iterate through the page specs.
+> I was thinking of keeping a list and a hash. You use the list for pagespecs
+> and the hash for individual page names. To make this work you need to adjust the
+> API so it knows which you're adding. -- [[Will]]
+
Also, since a lot of places are calling add_depends in a loop, it probably
makes sense to just make it accept a list of dependencies to add. It'll be
marginally faster, probably, and should allow for better optimisation
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