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

[Thompson, David]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> 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?

Makes sense.  Let's see how it goes. :)

> Continue the good work!

I'll try.

- Dave