[Radiant] Re: Layouts, snippets and site assets on the file system?

[Casper Fabricius]

Nice - thanks, Sean


On 31/07/2008, at 15:00, Sean Cribbs wrote:

> When I designed the extension, I toyed with the idea of providing a  
> way for extensions to specify how to dump/load their own models.   
> IIRC, you can just create an appropriately named module and then add  
> the model to the constant array in the FileSystem module.  You  
> should probably do all of that in your extension file.
>
> Sean
>
> Casper Fabricius wrote:
>> Nice work, Andrew. I wonder how hard it would to get this extension  
>> to also dump and load SnS text assets. Not that any of the  
>> extensions should have a dependency on the other, but the file- 
>> system-extension could perhaps check for the presence of SnS and  
>> dump that too, if present?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Casper
>>
>>
>> On 31/07/2008, at 8:28, Andrew Neil wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Jun 2008, at 18:51, Sean Cribbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jonathan McCoy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Highly unlikely. FUSE is a modular file system API - basically a  
>>>>> simple means to build your own file system without actually  
>>>>> having to do anything majorly complex. Although yes, what you  
>>>>> linked to would be a cool solution - it still lacks version  
>>>>> control. You'd also have to make it uber-bespoke to Radiant, and  
>>>>> to each model in the Radiant schema, otherwise you'll be working  
>>>>> with YAML etc. If somebody did build a FUSE interface for  
>>>>> Radiant, it would be nice if each page is represented by a  
>>>>> folder, with files corresponding to each page part, with the  
>>>>> extension being the filter used. A meta file could contain the  
>>>>> overall page settings.
>>>>>
>>>> You just described the file_system extension written for Redken  
>>>> to a T.  I would like to release it but I'm not ready to support  
>>>> it yet or to detox the code.
>>>
>>> I asked Sean if I could have a go at detoxing his code myself.  
>>> I've stripped out all of the Redken specific functionality, and  
>>> got the extension working on a vanilla Radiant site (i.e. with no  
>>> other extensions). Here it is:
>>>
>>>    http://github.com/nelstrom/radiant-file-system-extension/tree/master
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to hear any feedback.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Drew
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