From b9958fe3cf1a27b58d3e2bd59c76553eb0046782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:09:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] brief review of report --- doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b1e28f6a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/report/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Wow, this plugin does a lot... it seems to be `inline` (but without the feeds +or the ability to not have `archive="yes"`), plus part of +[[plugins/contrib/trail]], plus some sorting, plus an ingenious workaround +for template evaluation being relatively stateless. + +A large part of this plugin would just fall off if one of the versions of +[[todo/allow_add_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods]] was merged, which was a +large part of the idea of that feature request :-) To make use of that +you'd have to use `pagespec_match_list` in the trail case too, but that's +easy enough - just add `list => [@the_trail_pages]` to the arguments. + +Another large part would fall off if this plugin required, and internally +invoked, `inline` (like my `comments` plugin does) - `inline` runs +`pagetemplate` hooks, and in particular, it'll run the `field` hook. +Alternatively, this plugin could invoke `pagetemplate` hooks itself, +removing the special case for `field`. + +Perhaps the `headers` thing could migrate into inline somehow? That might +lead to making inline too big, though. + +Is the intention that the `trail` part is a performance hack, or a way +to select pages? How does it relate to [[todo/wikitrails]] or +[[plugins/contrib/trail]]? --[[smcv]] -- 2.39.5