hyde 0.8b1

Version 0.8b1

# A brand new hyde

This is the new version of hyde under active development. Incomplete documentation can be found [here][hydedocs]. [This][hyde1-0] should give a good understanding of the motivation behind this version. You can also take a look at the [documentation source][docs] for a reference implementation.

[hyde1-0]: http://groups.google.com/group/hyde-dev/web/hyde-1-0 [docs]: https://github.com/hyde/hyde/tree/master/hyde/layouts/doc [hydedocs]: http://hyde.github.com/overview

[Here](http://groups.google.com/group/hyde-dev/browse_thread/thread/2a143bd2081b3322) is the initial announcement of the project.

## Installation

To get the latest released version:

pip install hyde

For the current trunk:

pip install -e git://github.com/hyde/hyde.git#egg=hyde

## Creating a new hyde site

The following command:

hyde -s ~/test_site create

will create a new hyde site using the test layout.

## Generating the hyde site

cd ~/test_site hyde gen

## Serving the website

cd ~/test_site hyde serve open http://localhost:8080

The server also regenerates on demand. As long as the server is running, you can make changes to your source and refresh the browser to view the changes.

## Examples

1. [Cloudpanic](https://github.com/tipiirai/cloudpanic)

2. [Ringce](https://github.com/lakshmivyas/ringce/tree/v3.0)

## A brief list of features

1. Support for multiple templates (although only Jinja2 is currently implemented)

2. The different processor modules in the previous version are now replaced by a plugin object. This allows plugins to listen to events that occur during different times in the lifecycle and respond accordingly.

3. Metadata: Hyde now supports hierarchical metadata. You can specify and override variables at the site, node or the page level and access them in the templates.

4. Sorting: The sorter plugin provides rich sorting options that extend the object model.

5. Syntactic Sugar: Because of the richness of the plugin infrastructure, hyde can now provide additional syntactic sugar to make the content more readable. See blockdown and autoextend plugin for examples.

## Next Steps

1. Documentation

2. <del>Default Layouts</del>

3. Django Support

4. Plugins:

   • <del>Tags</del>

   • Atom / RSS

   • <del>Text Compressor (CSS, JS, HTML)</del>

   • <del>Image optimizer</del>