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diff --git a/doc/todo/plugin_dependency_calulation.mdwn b/doc/todo/plugin_dependency_calulation.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..28b36fc81 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/plugin_dependency_calulation.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +A few plugins need more complex dependency calculations than ikiwiki can do +on its own: + +* Use of a version plugin should only make the page rebuild when it's built + with a new version of ikiwiki. +* Some plugin might want to _always_ rebuild the page that uses it. +* If backlinks were turned into a plugin, it would need to make a page + rebuild when its backlinks changed. + +These suggest there should be a way for plugins to have hooks that tweak +the list of pages to rebuild. + +Which in turn suggests that there should *be* a list of pages to rebuild; +currently there's not, and the best such an interface could do would be to +rebuild the pages even if they were already going to be rebuilt for some +other reason. (See [[optimisations]].) + +It also suggests that plugins will want to examine pages and/or +[[store_data|plugin_data_storage]] about them to use in the dependency +calculations. For example, the version plugin would need to store info +about what pages use it. + +> I [[fixed|done]] this without realizing it when I added the needsbuild hook! +> --[[Joey]] |