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

[Richard Mortier <mort@xxxxxxxxxx>]

...and if you prefer the old steam powered way, my site
(http://mort.io) wraps up a Jekyll generated site on Travis. A blog
post about the process is at
http://mort.io/blog/2015/05/20/moving-onto-mirage/ though it's now a
little out-of-date as (eg) the env vars set in the .travis.yml have
changed-- https://github.com/mor1/mor1.github.io for the real deal...
:)

On 24 September 2015 at 00:42, Len Maxwell <len@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Dominic Price
> <dominic.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>
> Hi Dominic,
>
> FYI, the mirage-seal tool will take a directory of content and wrap it up as
> a unikernel, with (optional) HTTPS support:
>
> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-seal
>
> https://mirage.io/blog/mirage-seal
>
>
> cheers,
> --
> Len
>
>>
>>
>> > 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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