From t_leitner at gmx.at  Wed Aug 30 07:03:35 2006
From: t_leitner at gmx.at (Thomas Leitner)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:03:35 +0200
Subject: [webgen-users] Preliminary version of webgen 0.4.0
Message-ID: <20060830130335.05687a39@localhost>

Hello everyone!

I have uploaded a preliminary version of webgen 0.4.0 which can be
downloaded via http://webgen.rubyforge.org/webgen-0.4.0.tgz .

This version can already be used to convert a website to HTML. However,
the command line interface is not working, therefore you have to do
something like this to run webgen (save the following as run.rb):

require 'webgen/website'
Webgen::DEFAULT_PLUGIN_LOADER.load_from_dir( 'lib/webgen/plugins', 'lib/' )
website = Webgen::WebSite.new(ARGV[0]);
website.render

And then run this script in the webgen root directory via:
  ruby -Ilib run.rb WEBSITE_DIR

What's new and working in this version:
* nesting of templates possible
* templates have the same format as page files
* GalleryFileHandler now uses templates for picture and gallery pages
* html headers h1 - h6 with an id now get converted to section nodes which can be displayed using the menu style 'section'
* completely reworked plugin system
* test cases for (nearly) all source files (use 'rake test' to execute them)
* better log system where method method name is shown in log message
* much stuff that has no directly visible effect on the output :-)

What's not working currently:
* backing file support for virtual nodes
* CLI
* documentation not updated
* probably some more stuff ;-)

All plugins are already refactored to work with the new plugin system
and now I 'only' have to redo the CLI. I hope to release a working version
with a CLI soon (ie. in one or two month).

If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to write/ask!

Thomas