-Since there's no mailing list, I'll post my request for help here :-)
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-I would like to use ikiwiki to build a static site which needs some transformations to be made on binary assets. A simple example is to translate a .odp presentation to .pdf using (e.g.) unoconv. If I add a new .odp attachment, or push one into the repo, I want the corresponding .pdf to appear in the generated site. What's the right place to hook in to do this?
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-I've made an experimental prototype which hooks into needsbuild, builds the pages then and there, and at the same time removes them from the list of pages to be built.
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-~~~
-sub needsbuild {
- my $files=shift;
- my $nfiles=[];
- foreach my $f (@$files) {
- if ($f =~ /\.odp$/) {
- my $g = $f;
- $g =~ s/\.odp$/\.pdf/;
- debug("building $f to $g");
- will_render($f, $g);
- if (system("unoconv","-f","pdf","-o",IkiWiki::dirname("$config{destdir}/$g"),srcfile($f)) != 0) {
- error("unoconv: failed to translate $f to $g");
- }
- }
- else {
- push @$nfiles, $f;
- }
- };
- return $nfiles;
-}
-~~~
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-It appears to work, but is this the right way to do it, bearing in mind ikiwiki's dependency tracking and the like? And is the usage of will_render() correct?
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-[[BrianCandler]]
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