X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/blobdiff_plain/af8b42c720c6aaa54199b556a656d40e8b8951a6..c1a08dff0fcba3fc28ec3061a359d71efeb438be:/README.markdown diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index 84c3206..af78725 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -# ⛩️📰 书社 + +# ⛩📰 书社 -An X·S·L·T‐based static site generator. +A make·file for X·M·L. -⛩️📰 书社 aims to make it easy to generate websites with +⛩📰 书社 aims to make it easy to generate websites with X·S·L·T and G·N·U Make. It is consequently only a good choice for people who like X·S·L·T and G·N·U Make and wish it were easier to make websites with them. @@ -17,7 +21,12 @@ It makes things easier by :⁠— - Enabling easy inclusion of source files within each other. It aims to do this with zero dependencies beyond the programs already - installed on your computer. + installed on your computer†. + +† Assuming an operating system with a fairly featureful, and + Posix‐compliant, development setup (e·g, Macintosh ≥ version 10.8). +In fact, on Linux you will probably need to install a few programs: + `libxml2-utils`, `xsltproc`, `sharutils`, and `pax`. ## Nomenclature @@ -36,33 +45,129 @@ In Japanese, it is an alternate spelling for やしろ, The name 书社 was chosen to play on this pun, as it is intended as a publishing program for webshrines. -In Ascii environments, ⛩️📰 书社 should be written `Shushe`, following +In Ascii environments, ⛩📰 书社 should be written `Shushe`, following the pinyin transliteration. +## Prerequisites + +In most cases, ⛩📰 书社 aims to require only functionality which is + present in all Posix‐compliant (`POSIX.1-2001`) operating systems. +There are a few exceptions. +Details on particular programs are given below; if a program is not + listed, it is assumed that any Posix‐compliant implementation will + work. + +### `diff` + +This is a Posix utility, but ⛩📰 书社 depends on functionality + introduced after `POSIX.1-2001` (the `-u` option, introduced in + `POSIX.1-2008`). +Macintosh systems somewhat interestingly implement this option + correctly in legacy mode (`COMMAND_MODE=legacy`) but incorrectly by + default (despite claiming `POSIX.1-2008` conformance for this + utility). +[Note this erroneous comment claiming nanosecond & timezone are + extensions rather than standardized.][rdar-92753335] +Despite this, the default Macintosh implementation will still work with + ⛩📰 书社, with the caveat that the timestamp will only include a + fractional component when a Posix⹀compliant (e·g, Macintosh legacy or + G·N·U) implementation is used. + +### `file` + +This is a Posix utility, but it was considered optional in + `POSIX.1-2001` (altho it was made mandatory in `POSIX.1-2008`) and + ⛩📰 书社 currently depends on unspecified behaviour. +It requires support for the following additional options :⁠— + +- **`-C`**, when supplied with `-m`, must be useable to compile a + `.mgc` magicfile for use with future invocations of `file`. + +- **`--files-from`** must be useable to provide a file that `file` + should read file·names from, and `-` must be useable in this + context to specify the standard input. + +- **`--mime-type`** must cause `file` to print the internet media type + of the file with no charset parameter. + +- **`--separator`** must be useable to set the separator that `file` + uses to separate file names from types. + +These options are implemented by the + [Fine Free File Command](https://darwinsys.com/file/), which is used + by most operating systems. + +### `git` + +This is not a Posix utility. +Usage of `git` is optional, but recommended (and activated by default). +To disable it, set `GIT=`. + +### `make` + +This is a Posix utility, but it is considered an optional Software + Development utility and ⛩📰 书社 currently depends on unspecified + behaviour. +⛩📰 书社 requires specifically the G·N·U version of `make`, and + depends on functionality present in version 3.81 or later. +It is not expected to work in previous versions, or with other + implementations of Make. + +### `pax` + +This is a Posix utility, but it is not included in the Linux Standard + Base or installed by default in many distributions. +⛩📰 书社 only requires support for the `ustar` format. + +### `uudecode` and `uuencode` + +These are Posix utilities, but they were considered optional in + `POSIX.1-2001` (altho they are made mandatory in `POSIX.1-2008`) and + they are not included in the Linux Standard Base or installed by + default in many distributions. +The G·N·U [Sharutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/) package + provides one implementation. + +### `xmlcatalog` and `xmllint` + +These are not a Posix utilities. +They are a part of `libxml2`, but may need to be installed separately + on some platforms (e·g by the name `libxml2-utils`). + +### `xsltproc` + +This is not a Posix utility. +It is a part of `libxslt`, but may need to be installed separately on + some platforms. + ## Basic Usage Place source files in `sources/` and run `make install` to compile the result to `public/`. Compilation involves the following steps :⁠— -1. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles all of the magic files in `magic/` into a single +1. ⛩📰 书社 compiles all of the magic files in `magic/` into a single file, `build/magic.mgc`. -2. ⛩️📰 书社 processes all of the parsers in `parsers/` and determines +2. ⛩📰 书社 processes all of the parsers in `parsers/` and determines the list of supported plaintext types. -3. ⛩️📰 书社 identifies all of the source files and includes and uses +3. ⛩📰 书社 identifies all of the source files and includes and uses `build/magic.mgc` to classify them by media type. -4. ⛩️📰 书社 parses all plaintext and X·M·L source files and includes +4. ⛩📰 书社 parses all plaintext and X·M·L source files and includes and then builds a dependency tree between them. -5. ⛩️📰 书社 uses the dependency tree to establish prerequisites for +5. ⛩📰 书社 uses the dependency tree to establish prerequisites for each output file. -6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/public`. +6. ⛩📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/result`. -7. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the output files to `public`. +7. ⛩📰 书社 copies most output files from `build/result` to + `build/public`, but it does some additional processing instead on + those which indicate a non‐X·M·L desired final output form. + +8. ⛩📰 书社 copies the final resulting files to `public`. You can use `make list` to list each identified source file or include alongside its computed type and dependencies. @@ -70,91 +175,209 @@ As this is a Make‐based program, steps will only be run if the corresponding buildfile or output file is older than its prerequisites. -## Namespaces +## Name·spaces -The ⛩️📰 书社 namespace is `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4`. +The ⛩📰 书社 name·space is `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4`. -This document uses a few namespace prefixes, with the following +This document uses a few name·space prefixes, with the following meanings :⁠— -| Prefix | Expansion | -| -------: | :----------------------------------------- | -| `html:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml` | -| `xlink:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink` | -| `xslt:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform` | -| `书社:` | `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4` | +| Prefix | Expansion | +| ---------: | :-------------------------------------------- | +| `catalog:` | `urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog` | +| `exsl:` | `http://exslt.org/common` | +| `exslstr:` | `http://exslt.org/strings` | +| `html:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml` | +| `svg:` | `http://www.w3.org/2000/svg` | +| `xlink:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink` | +| `xslt:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform` | +| `书社:` | `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4` | ## Setup and Configuration -⛩️📰 书社 depends on the following programs to run. +⛩📰 书社 depends on the following programs to run. In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the corresponding (allcaps) variable (e·g, set `MKDIR` to supply your own `mkdir` implementation). +- `awk` - `cat` +- `cd` +- `cksum` - `cp` -- `echo` +- `date` +- `diff` - `file` - `find` -- `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`) +- `git` (optional; set `GIT=` to disable) +- `grep` +- `ln` +- `mkdir` - `mv` +- `od` +- `pax` (only when generating archives) - `printf` - `rm` - `sed` - `sleep` - `test` - `touch` -- `tr` (requires support for `-d`) -- `uuencode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`) +- `tr` +- `uuencode` +- `uudecode` +- `xargs` - `xmlcatalog` (provided by `libxml2`) - `xmllint` (provided by `libxml2`) - `xsltproc` (provided by `libxslt`) The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour - of ⛩️📰 书社 :⁠— + of ⛩📰 书社 :⁠— - **`SRCDIR`:** The location of the source files (default: `sources`). + Multiple source directories can be provided, so long as the same + file subpath doesn’t exist in more than one of them. - **`INCLUDEDIR`:** - The location of the source files (default: `sources/includes`). + The location of source includes (default: `sources/includes`). This can be inside of `SRCDIR`, but needn’t be. + Multiple include directories can be provided, so long as the same + file subpath doesn’t exist in more than one of them. + +- **`DATADIR`:** + If set to the location of a directory, ⛩📰 书社 will run a two‐stage build. + In the first stage, only files in `SRCDIR` which match `FINDDATARULES` (see below) will be built, with files in `DATADIR` serving as includes. + In the second stage, the remaining files in `SRCDIR` will be built, with the files built during the first stage, in addition to any files in `INCLUDEDIR`, serving as includes. + Files built during the first stage are copied into `DESTDIR` alongside those from the second stage when installing. + + This functionality is intended for sites where the bulk of the site can be built from a few data files which are expensive to create. - **`BUILDDIR`:** The location of the (temporary) build directory (default: `build`). + `make clean` will delete this, and it is recommended that it not be + used for programs aside from ⛩📰 书社. - **`DESTDIR`:** The location of directory to output files to (default: `public`). + `make install` will overwrite files in this directory which + correspond to those in `SRCDIR`. + It *will not* touch other files, including those generated from files + in `SRCDIR` which have since been deleted. + + Files are first compiled to `$(BUILDDIR)/public` before they are + copied to `DESTDIR`, so this folder is relatively quick and + inexpensive to re·create. + It’s reasonable to simply delete it before every `make install` to + ensure stale content is removed. - **`THISDIR`:** - The location of the ⛩️📰 书社 `GNUmakefile`. + The location of the ⛩📰 书社 `GNUmakefile`. This should be set automatically when calling Make and shouldn’t ever need to be set manually. - This variable is used to find the ⛩️📰 书社 `lib/` folder, which is + This variable is used to find the ⛩📰 书社 `lib/` folder, which is expected to be in the same location. -- **`MAGICDIR`:** - The location of the magic files to use (default: `$(THISDIR)/magic`). +- **`MAGIC`:** + A white·space‐separated list of magic files to use (default: + `$(THISDIR)/magic/*`). -- **`FINDOPTS`:** - Options to pass to `find` when searching for source files (default: - `-LE`). +- **`EXTRAMAGIC`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `MAGIC` by default, to + enable additional magic files without overriding the existing ones. - **`FINDRULES`:** - Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files (default: - `-flags -nohidden -and -not -name '.*'`). + Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files. + The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus, + those which end with a cloparen, and those which contain a hash, + buck, percent, asterisk, colon, semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash, + or pipe. + It is important that these rules not produce any output, as anything + printed to `stdout` will be considered a result of the find. + +- **`EXTRAFINDRULES`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `FINDRULES` by default, to + enable additional rules without overriding the existing ones. + +- **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:** + Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default: + `$(FINDRULES)`). + +- **`EXTRAFINDINCLUDERULES`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `FINDINCLUDERULES` by + default, to enable additional rules without overriding the existing + ones. + +- **`DATAEXT`:** + A list of file extensions which signify “data” files during a two‐stage build using `DATADIR`. + +- **`FINDDATARULES`:** + Rules to use with `find` when searching for data files. + By default, these rules are derived from `DATAEXT`. + +- **`EXTRAFINDDATARULES`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `FINDDATARULES` by + default, to enable additional rules without overriding the existing + ones. - **`PARSERS`:** A white·space‐separated list of parsers to use (default: `$(THISDIR)/parsers/*.xslt`). +- **`EXTRAPARSERS`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `PARSERS` by default, to + enable additional parsers without overriding the existing ones. + +- **`PARSERLIBS`:** + A white·space‐separated list of parser dependencies (default: + `$(THISDIR)/lib/split.xslt`). + +- **`EXTRAPARSERLIBS`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `PARSERLIBS` by default, to + enable additional parser dependencies without overriding the + existing ones. + - **`TRANSFORMS`:** A white·space‐separated list of transforms to use (default: `$(THISDIR)/transforms/*.xslt`). +- **`EXTRATRANSFORMS`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `TRANSFORMS` by default, to + enable additional transforms without overriding the existing ones. + +- **`TRANSFORMLIBS`:** + A white·space‐separated list of transform dependencies (default: + `$(THISDIR)/lib/serialize.xslt`). + +- **`EXTRATRANSFORMLIBS`:** + The value of this variable is appended to `TRANSFORMLIBS` by default, + to enable additional transform dependencies without overriding the + existing ones. + - **`XMLTYPES`:** - A white·space‐separated list of media types to consider X·M·L - (default: `application/xml text/xml`). + A white·space‐separated list of media types or media type suffixes to + consider X·M·L (default: `application/xml text/xml +xml`). + +- **`FINALIZE`:** + A program to run on (unspecial) X·M·L files after they are + transformed (default: `xmllint --nonet --nsclean`). + This variable can be used for postprocessing. + +- **`THISREV`:** + The current version of ⛩📰 书社 (default: derived from the current + git tag/branch/commit). + +- **`SRCREV`:** + The current version of the source files (default: derived from the + current git tag/branch/commit). + +- **`QUIET`:** + If this variable has a value, informative messages will not be + printed (default: empty). + Informative messages print to stderr, not stdout, so disabling them + usually shouldn’t be necessary. + This does not (cannot) disable messages from Make itself, for which + the `-s`, `--silent` ∕ `--quiet` Make option is more likely to be + useful. - **`VERBOSE`:** If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be @@ -175,6 +398,8 @@ Supported magic numbers include :⁠— - `#!js` for `text/javascript` files - `@charset "` for `text/css` files - `#!tsv` for `text/tab-separated-values` files +- `%%` for `text/record-jar` files (unregistered; see + [[draft-phillips-record-jar-01][]]) Text formats with associated X·S·L·T parsers are wrapped in a H·T·M·L `