Re: [PATCH] website: Add support for Haunt.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

"Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> skribis:
>>
>>> +Building the website depends on the static site generator:
>>> +
>>> +  - [[http://haunt.dthompson.us/][Haunt]]
>>> +
>>> +To build the site, run ‘haunt build -c guixsd.scm’ to compile all of
>>> +the HTML pages.  To view the results, run ‘haunt serve -c guixsd.scm’
>>> +and visit <http://localhost:8080> in a web browser.
>>
>> This looks nice.
>>
>> Is there a way to specify the output directory for the generated HTML?
>>
>> Currently I do:
>>
>>   (export-web-site "/path/to/cvs/checkout")
>>
>> so the HTML ends up directly in the right place.
>
> Yes, you can tweak haunt.scm a bit:
>
> (site ... #:build-directory "/path/to/cvs/checkout")

And from the command line?  I don’t want to hard-code /home/ludo in the
code.  :-)

> WARNING: Haunt builds the site afresh at each 'haunt build' run, which
> means that it deletes everything in the build directory first.  Will
> that be an issue here?

That should be fine.

Thanks,
Ludo’.