Hi Axel, On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:51:28 +0200 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Shlomi, > > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > 2. The newest release of wml is 2.28.0 (see > > https://github.com/thewml/website-meta-language/releases ) > > I know. > > > while Debian sid is stuck at 2.12.x (see > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/wml ). > > Yes, as I didn't get any newer releases (up to 2.24) to build properly > anymore. You can see my tries here: > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wml/-/tree/2.20.4-pkg-incomplete > (ignore the version in the branch name, I didn't expect this to last > several upstream releases). > > IIRC I had test suite failures. Need to check 2.28 again. (And yes, I > know, I haven't filed an upstream bug report yet — still haven't > figured out what exactly is the cause for the failures.) > Ah - thanks for the update. I guess I can try building the package myself in a VM/container. For the record, the build and tests pass fine in travis-ci/ubuntu bionic , locally on fedora and mageia, on the mageia build system, and on appveyor/mswin10/cygwin . > > I'd rather not support such an old release, > > It's not about Debian Unstable, it's about the WML version in current > Debian Unstable (which only happens to be the same upstream version as > in Debian Unstable for the reasons mentioned above) and Debian (well, > I) will support this until the EoL of Debian 10 Buster. > ok. > > so if the new version still exhibits some > > regressions, please send a failing testcase to > > https://github.com/thewml/website-meta-language/tree/master/src/wml_test and > > I'll try to fix it. > > Will do — as soon I get it building again. > I'll try to help. > > Converting some of my sites away from wml has shortened their build times > > considerably. > > But are they as flexible as before while still being statically > compiled? I doubt. > They are still "statically compiled" (or generated: https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-tech-diary/blob/master/static-site-generators--despair.md ), and I verified that they generated the same output before and after using "diff -u -r", html-minifier and other tools. Template Toolkit is fairly flexible and has fewer "WTF?" surprises than wml, as I discovered some misrendered output during the conversions. There may be some features that only wml has and TT doesn't, but I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. > Regards, Axel -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Objective Visual Turbo Global jIronOpenPerl++.NET™ Enterprise Edition♭ Professional Home Premium Ultimate 64-bit Single-user. — based on a Freenode #perl conversation ( https://is.gd/cCUBY2 ) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
