New Python.org website ?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gerhard Häring wrote:

> > the sample site contains ~600 pages.  each page has been automatically
> > translated from python.org sources to moinmoin markup, and then stored
> > in a moinmoin 1.5 instance.  a separate component has then extracted the
> > pages from moinmoin, and converted them XHTML fragments for rendering.
>
> Great.
>
> This sounds a lot like the ugly hacked script I produced that would dump
> all MoinMoin contents to XHTML in one directory, and the raw MoinMoin
> sources to another directory:
>
> http://ghaering.de/pydotorg/dumpwiki.py

that's quite similar to what I've been using, with the exception that I'm pulling
the text from a moinmoin server, and cleaning up the resulting HTML (which is
wikified, and quite horrible ;-).

> The other part of my experiment was a stupid build system that
> recursively looks for KID files in a directory tree and renders them to
> HTML.
>
> What do you think of an approach like this?

makes perfect sense, in itself (but I think the choice of templating system can
wait until we've sorted out the CMS and rendering side of things).  let's get the
content in good shape first...

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