Re: [SLUG] Content management systems?

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 21:20:12 EDT


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:01:39PM -0400, Dylan William Hardison wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 02, 2003 at 07:03PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Do you really need a CMS? I do the SLUG site with a homebrew system
> > involving make, perl and mp4h, and upload the static pages via rsync.
>
> What about m4? :)
>
> I was going to use m4, make, sed, awk, and some other utils
> to manage my site, and I even have a complicated blog of sorts written
> in zsh... Never finnished that project, though.
>
> ( I'm still working on making a nice, old-fashioned static site
> though, except instead of m4 I'm using ttree, which uses the template
> toolkit, which is nice, because I'm also making a 'web application' (I
> hate that term) with a custom apache handler and the Template Toolkit.)

mp4h is based on m4. I used m4 for a while, but the quoting necessary to
make it all work with m4 drove me nuts.

Paul



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