After some time thinking about it I've moved my blog from PyBloxsom to ikiwiki; I'm still playing with it and the site needs some work, but it seems to work ok and the default look and feel is good enough for me.
This post is written using Markdown to give it a try, but I wrote a simple plugin to add (partial) support for rst to be able to keep all my old entries without additional editing. I've sent the file to joeyh and I hope it gets into the upstream code (improved, if possible), as that will remove the need to keep my local changes in sync with the debian package.
I have not enabled the ikiwiki.cgi because the machine I'm running it is
quite slow and anyway I only need it for comments, and I usually don't have
many of them. Instead of enabling comments I've added a footer asking people
to send comments to echo -n klgoaca@@@eapafwl.fwl | tr -s @a-z@ @i-za-h@
instead.
To avoid flooding planet I've used the ikiwiki flood prevention mechanism, previous posts can be reached through the categories and/or using the full Blog index.
Update
I've been told that there is a Perl library to parse rst.
I knew someone was working on it, but have not seen code until now; the package is called Text-Restructured and it is available from the URL http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Restructured/.
Probably my hack could be replaced by code that uses this module instead of
calling python to parse the files... any volunteers?
