> Thanks for coming up with a patch.. Let me make sure I understand its
> rationalle.
> 
> The meta plugin already allows modifying the page creation time,
> which is what the calendar plugin uses.
> 
> So, it seems to me that the use of this patch is for recording events in
> the future. You'd not want a page for a future event to claim it was
> created in the future. I suppose you could also use it for events in the
> past, if you didn't want to change the creation time for some reason.
> (Perhaps you're doing a calendar of historical events, for example.)
>
> Accurate? --[[Joey]]

>> Thanks for the feedback. Thinking about what you said ... I suspect my patch 
>> doesn't belong in the calendar plugin, which does a very specific thing 
>> (create a calendar to show when blog posts were created). I'm really angling 
>> toward an event calendar (as mentioned on [[todo/plugin]]). I'd like to preserve 
>> the page creation time - which is useful and important information in its own right 
>> - and be able to generate a calendar with links to particular posts that will show 
>> up on the calendar based on an arbitrary date. Perhaps this should be re-considered 
>> as a separate plugin? --[[Jamie]]

>>> I think it makes sense to have only one calendar, if possible.
>>> I think your event stuff is fine, the only thing we might want to add
>>> is a config option for the calendar, to control whether it looks at the
>>> event date, or the creation date. --[[Joey]]

>>>> Ok - I can work on that. One question - the existing calendar module has it's own 
>>>> functions for building an html display of a calendar. HTML::CalendarMonth seems to 
>>>> provide that functionality. My instincts are to rip out the code in the calendar plugin
>>>> and use the existing module. On the other hand, that creates added dependencies. 
>>>> Suggestions anyone? --[[Jamie]]

>>>>> I'm all for ripping code out of ikiwiki where CPAN can be used, as
>>>>> long as the resulting code and html are good. --[[Joey]]

>>>>>> Sounds good. I'll work on HTML::CalendarMonth for the next version. In the current version I
>>>>>> did the event date vs. creation date option as a parameter to the calendar 
>>>>>> preprocessor rather than as a config variable so you could do it differently on
>>>>>> different calendars in the same wiki. I also opted for values of auto vs. event
>>>>>> rather than creation time vs. event since if you want to use creation time you 
>>>>>> can simply not include the event preprocessor directive. auto seems to give you that
>>>>>> plus more flexibility. Feedback welcome :). --[[Jamie]]