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I rearranged my patchset once again, to clearly identify the origin and
motivation of each patch, which is explained in the following.
> Applied. --[[Joey]]
+>> Thanks.
+
The second patch, ‘inline: improve feed title and description
management’, aligns feed title and description management by introducing
a `title` option to complement `description`, and by basing the
>
> Oh, and could you indent your `elsif` the same as I? --[[Joey]]
+>> I hadn't even realized that I was nesting ifs inside else clauses,
+>> sorry. I think you're also right about the safety of the key, after
+>> all it only gets interpolated with known, safe strings.
+
+>>> I did not mean to imply that I thought it safe. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> Sorry for assuming you implied that. I do think it is safe, though
+>>>> (I defaulted to not safe just to err on the safe side).
+
+>> The question is what to do for pages that do not have a description
+>> (and are not the index). With your proposal, the Atom feed subtitle
+>> would turn up empty. We could make it conditional in the default
+>> template, or we could have `$desc` default to `$title` if nothing
+>> else is provided, but at this point I see no reason to _not_ allow
+>> the user to choose a way to build a default description.
+
+>>> RSS requires the `<description>` element be present, it can't
+>>> be conditionalized away. But I see no reason to add the complexity
+>>> of an option to configure a default value for a field that
+>>> few RSS consumers likely even use. That's about 3 levels below useful.
+>>> --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> The way I see it, there are three possibilities for non-index pages
+>>>> which have no description meta: (1) we leave the
+>>>> description/subtitle in feed blank, per your current proposal here
+>>>> (2) we hard-code some string to put there and (3) we make the
+>>>> string to put there configurable. Honestly, I think option #1 sucks
+>>>> aesthetically and option #2 is conceptually wrong (I'm against
+>>>> hard-coding stuff in general), which leaves option #3: however
+>>>> rarely used it would be, I still think it'd be better than #2 and
+>>>> less unaesthetical than #1.
+
+>>>> I'm also not sure what's ‘complex’ about having such an option:
+>>>> it's definitely not going to get much use, but does it hurt to have
+>>>> it? I could understand not wasting time putting it in, but since
+>>>> the code is written already … (but then again I'm known for being a
+>>>> guy who loves options).
+
The third patch, ‘inline: allow assigning an id to postform/feedlink’,
does just that. I don't currently use it, but it can be particularly
useful in the postform case for example for scriptable management of
multiple postforms in the same page.
+> Applied. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks.
+
In one of my wiki setups I had a terminating '/' in `$config{url}`. You
mention that it should not be present, but I have not seen this
requirement described anywhere. Rather than restricting the user input,
I propose a patch that prevents double slashes from appearing in links
created by `urlto()` by fixing the routine itself.
+> If this is fixed I would rather not put the overhead of fixing it in
+> every call to `urlto`. And I'm not sure this is a comprehensive
+> fix to every problem a trailing slash in the url could cause. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Maybe something that sanitizes the config value would be better instead?
+>> What is the policy about automatic changing user config?
+
+>>> It's impossible to do for perl-format setup files. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> Ok. In that case I think that we should document that it must be
+>>>> slash-less. I'll cook up a patch in that sense.
+
The inline plugin is also updated (in a separate patch) to use `urlto()`
rather than hand-coding the feed urls. You might want to keep this
change even if you discard the urlto patch.
+> IIRC, I was missing a proof that this always resulted in identical urls,
+> which is necessary to prevent flooding. I need such a proof before I can
+> apply that. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Well, the URL would obviously change if the `$config{url}` ended in
+>> slash and the `urlto` patch (or other equivalent) went into effect.
+
+>> Aside from that, if I read the code correctly, the only other extra
+>> thing that `urlto` does is to `beautify_url_path` the `"/".$to` part,
+>> and the only way this would cause the url to be altered is if the
+>> feed name was "index" (which can easily happen) and
+>> `$config{htmlext}` was set to something like `.rss` or
+>> `.rss.1`.
+
+>> So there is a remote possibility that a different URL would be
+>> produced.