I haven't settled on a comfortable/flexible/quick development environment for hacking on ikiwiki. The VM I host my web pages on is not fast enough to use for RAD and ikiwiki. For developing plugins, it seems a bit heavy-weight to clone the entire ikiwiki repository. I haven't managed to get into a habit of running a cloned version of ikiwiki from it's own dir, rather than installing it (If that's even possible). The ikiwiki site source (source ./doc) is quite large and not a great testbed for hacking (e.g. if you are working on a plugin you need a tailored test suite for that plugin). Does anyone have a comfortable setup or tips they would like to share? -- [[Jon]] > I've just been setting `libdir` in an existing wiki's setup file. When the plugin's in a decent state, I copy it over to a git checkout and commit. For the plugins I've been working on (auth and VCS), this has been just fine. Are you looking for something more? --[[schmonz]] >> I think this suffers from two problems. Firstly, unless you are tracking git >> master in your existing wiki, there's the possibility that your plugin will >> not work with a more modern version of ikiwiki (or that it would benefit >> from using a newly added utility subroutine or similar). >>> Unlikely. I don't make changes to the plugin interface that break >>> existing plugins. (Might change non-exported `IkiWiki::` things >>> from time to time.) --[[Joey]] >> Second, sometimes I >> find that even writing a plugin can involve making minor changes outside of >> the plugin code (bug fixes, or moving functionality about). So, I think >> having some kind of environment built around a git checkout is best. >> >> However, this does not address the issue of the tedium writing/maintaining a >> setup file for testing things. >> >> I think I might personally benefit from a more consistent environment (I >> move from machine-to-machine frequently). -- [[Jon]] > If you set `libdir` to point to a checkout of ikiwiki's git repository, > it will override use of the installed version of ikiwiki, so ikiwiki will > immediatly use any changed or new `.pm` files (with the exception of > IkiWiki.pm), and you can use git to manage it all without an installation > step. If I am modifying IkiWiki.pm, I generally symlink it from > `/usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki.pm` to my git reporisitory. Granted, not ideal. > > I often use my laptop's local version of my personal wiki for testing. > It has enough stuff that I can easily test most things, and if I need > a test page I just dump test cases on the sandbox. I can make > any changes necessary during testing and then `git reset --hard > origin/master` to avoid publishing them. > > If the thing I'm testing involves templates, or underlays, > I will instead use ikiwiki's `docwiki.setup` for testing, modifying it as > needed, since it is preconfigured to use the templates and underlays > from ikiwiki's source repository. > --[[Joey]]