[SLUG] St. Pete meeting presentation thing

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 22:35:40 EST

Greetings. This next St. Pete meeting (Monday) I will be giving a presentation,
of sorts, about how the 'build system' for my website works.

Basically, I'll be talking about perl scripts, zsh scripts, makefiles,
etc. Actually, it is an ugly beast, but it works. <g>

Features:
  * zsh's "coproc" command, along with read -p and print -p commands.
    This is really useful
        --
        coproc some-filter-command

        while read -p line; do
          echo "I got line: $line";
          print -p "Sending this to the filter..."
        done
        --
  * Various cases perl insanity. For example, a html filtering thing that
    automagically adds width="" and height="" tags to <img> tags.
  * Believe it or not, awk is sometimes still slightly more useful
    than perl...
  * Abusing makefiles for fun and profit...

Oh, and the build system also has some very interesting mirroring features.

There *may* be some pizza for those that get there early. :-) 

-- 
We're here to give you a computer, not a religion.
              -- attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga
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