hyde-old

Do you use a static website generator other than Jekyll or Hyde? And if you use Hyde, what are your thoughts on new version (v0.8.8 https://github.com/hyde/hyde) compared to "classic" (v0.5.3 https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde)?

Because they're too complicated! If I want to get started with them, or extend them, there's a large learning curve. For example, take a look at https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde/blob/master/hydeengine/f... or https://github.com/borismus/lightning/blob/master/lightning What does all of that stuff do? Why does lightning need YAML and pickle? Why does hyde need to mirror the entirety of python's os module, including os.walk, for both Files and Folders? Now compare that to my version: https://bitbucket.org/anthonyb/shithead/src/8a8e5787cf6a/blo... , which is essentially the entire engine, file system handling and building code.

How is it different from Hyde? https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde

Instead of writing your own blogging engine, I would suggest using one of the many extensible blogging platforms as a base and building from there. I personally have become a huge fan of statically-generated blogs (using Jekyll[1] for Ruby or Hyde[2] for Python) as they integrate great with version control and require little maintenance. Another benefit is speed, as nginx serves static content with ease. [1]:https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll [2]:https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde

Gah, wordpress. I serve static pages off of a PII-500mhz with 256MB RAM, and 50 concurrent users look about the same as 1. MySQL is not your friend. I'm using blogger specifically because it pushes static files, but I want to check out http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll (Ruby) or http://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde (Python).

I wish Hyde (the python equiv) had this much support/momentum. http://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde