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

[Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>]

Hi,

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

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
[...]
>> Does the generated HTML change as a result of using Haunt?
>
> Not as far as I can tell by looking at the patch.
>
> I'm not 100% sure if Haunt really buys us anything in the case of this
> site.  Mathieu, do you see any current or potential future advantages
> to using Haunt having done this work?  I'm really happy to see more
> Haunt users, but I also don't want to encourage its use where it
> doesn't make sense. :)

For now it provides us a reliable and simple command line interface for
building the website.  My hope for the future is that GuixSD website
will have a smaller code base that will use convenient generic
procedures provided by Haunt.  Of course it will depend on what would
make sense to be implemented in Haunt.  the first example I have in mind
is the the RSS/Atom feed importer implemented by Ludo in “www.scm” (used
by new Guile's website too) which IIUC could be implemented as a Haunt
reader.  This would provide somekind of RSS/Atom functional
composability. ;)

WDYT?

Continue the good work!

--
Mathieu Lrzin