Re: [MirageOS-devel] Blog and OPAM-aware static website generator

[Dominic Price <dominic.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/09/2015 10:32, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
> 
>> On 23 Sep 2015, at 09:20, Gareth Rushgrove <gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 22 September 2015 at 21:24, Andrew Stuart
>> <andrew.stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The Pioneer Projects page 
>>> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects mentions "Blog 
>>> and OPAM-aware static website generatorâ.
>>>
>>> Anyone interested in generating static websites would gain a great deal 
>>> from first investigating httrack - itâs the most powerful static site 
>>> generator although not many people seem to know of it.  httrack can convert 
>>> most websites into static HTML and then they just need to be compiled into 
>>> MirageOS.
>>>
>>> https://www.httrack.com
>>>
>>
>> I'd see htttrack as more of a spiderering tool, for downloading an
>> existing site. Like wget but more specialised. It's pretty great.
>>
>> I _think_ this project refers more to generating the HTML in the first
>> place, often from something like a directory of markdown files. Most
>> languages have something similar and it's often a great
>> my-first-running-application place to start with a new language. As
>> inspiration for that sort of thing:
>>
>> https://gohugo.io/ (Go)
>> http://blog.getpelican.com/ (Python)
>> https://sculpin.io/ (PHP)
>> https://jekyllrb.com/ (Ruby)
>> http://wintersmith.io/ (JavaScript)
> 
> Yes, this project is about creating a pure OCaml static-site generator, but 
> with the added benefit of being able to extend functionality to make use of 
> other parts of the OCaml ecosystem (i.e. OPAM).  

Out of interest, is there a particular reason for wanting a pure OCaml
tool? I was thinking about a similar tool recently and as a starting
point I was going to start with something simple that could take the
output from Jekyll (for example) and wrap it up as a unikernel.

Dominic

> Some work began earlier this year and you can see the core of it at: 
> https://github.com/dsheets/tower
> I should probably write up a post about what we were aiming for and where we 
> got to. :)
> 
> In the long term, it would be pretty cool to set up infrastructure like 
> GitHub pages for the OCaml community, where unikernel sites for 
> individuals/projects could be hosted (and using something like Jitsu would 
> mean theyâre only âactiveâ when required).  Thatâs a little way off though.
> 
> If anyone is interested in working on the static site generator project, 
> please do get in touch!
> 
> Amir
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