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

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

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")

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?

> 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. :)

Thanks,

- Dave