[darcs-users] darcs website now merged with wiki

[Michael Hendricks]

Between travel and work, I haven't had much time to follow the discussion
lately, but great work by everyone involved.  This is all looking nice.

Thanks.

-- 
Michael


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to some intensive gardening and porting by Guillaume, (and also to
> Michael for initiating the push to lighter weight darcs development) we now
> have simplified a bit of our web infrastructure.
>
> Basically:
>
> 1. Visiting http://darcs.net in your browser should now take you straight
> to the wiki.  We have a few static pages (front page, donations, thanks)
> which can only be edited over darcs/ssh
>
> 2. Getting repos off darcs net (eg. darcs get http://darcs.net or darcs
> get http://darcs.net/releases/2.8) should still work as normal
>
> 3. To darcs get the wiki, you now need to do
> darcs get --lazy http://darcs.net/darcs-wiki
>
> (darcs get http://wiki.darcs.net will give you screened instead)
>
> 4. The manual should still work as normal (same old latex2html stuff),
> except now it's based off reviewed rather than screened.  Over time, it'd
> be great to switch to all markdown (consolidation, nothing against LaTeX)
> and maybe move the manual to a similarly static part of the wiki.  On the
> other hand, we have a nice amount of automation here that it would be sad
> to lose (part of the manual is the same as the darcs help text, which is
> baked into darcs).  This whole situation could one day be improved so that
> the text lives in some (eg) markdown file which magically gets baked into
> the source
>
> The aim of this initiative is to make the darcs website a bit easier to
> maintain.
>
> Thanks, Michael and Guillaume!
>
> Eric (who probably *still* managed to break something…)
>
> Simon: we've lost your lovely efforts on the nice homepage!  The wikified
> version isn't quite as nice.  Maybe you and Guillaume can sort something
> out?
>
> --
> Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
>
>
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