On 11.10.21 10:07, Matthieu Gautier wrote:
> Le 10/10/2021 à 21:38, Amirouche Boubekki a écrit :
>>
>> That is great ! I did not look at linked page yet. What are hints ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> "Hints" is a generic system to allow the scraper to pass ... hints to
> the creator when we create a zim file.
> Hints are information for the creator only. They may change the way the
> entries are stored
> but they are not stored in the zim file and readers cannot access them.
> 
> For now we support only two hints:
> - COMPRESS : Force the creator to compress or not the content (if not
> given, use default heuristics based on mimetype)
> - FRONT_ARTICLE : Tell the item/redirection is a entry intended to be
> displayed to the user as a article (to oppose to resources as image/css/js)
>   Random articles or suggestion use front articles only (when possible).
> 
> COMPRESS is not really important but FRONT_ARTICLE is somehow mandatory
> as we have no other way to differentiate articles from resources
> (as we don't have namespace now)

Important other point: the documentation has been seriously improved.
There is even a migration documentation. Look at
https://libzim.readthedocs.io/

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