From: http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/ <http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/@web>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:48:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: what about a SortSpec rather than a sort-hook?
X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/1a587504e949bf0584acdf7737597c8332467332

what about a SortSpec rather than a sort-hook?
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diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn
index 21800f4de..5bfe102ac 100644
--- a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ NIH'd sorting mechanisms:
   interpret `sort="x -y z(w)"` as sorting by (pseudocode)
   `{ $cmp_x->($a, $b) || (-$cmp_y->($a, $b)) || $cmp_z->($a, $b, "w") }`?
 
+>> I wonder if IkiWiki would benefit from the concept of a "sortspec", like a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] but dedicated to sorting lists of pages rather than defining lists of pages?  Rather than defining a sort-hook, define a SortSpec class, and enable people to add their own sort methods as functions defined inside that class, similarly to the way they can add their own pagespec definitions. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
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 ## Documentation extracted from the branch
 
 ### sort hook (added to [[plugins/write]])