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diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn index fc80470fc..b64321008 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki-calendar/discussion.mdwn @@ -21,3 +21,16 @@ Having done this, the only purpose of ikiwiki-calendar would be to re-generate t Did I miss something? If I am right, I offer to write the necessary patch, copied and adapted from the tag plugin, to generate the pages `archive_base/year/month.mdwn` on the fly. -- Spalax + +> Good spotting, `ikiwiki-calendar` predates the `add_autofile` API used to +> autocreate tag pages and was bolted in as an easy way to create calendar +> pages. +> +> It would be possible to do that inside the caneldar plugin now. Although +> some command would still need to be run on a daily (or weekly, or +> monthly, or yearly..) basis to have it wake up and make the new calendar +> pages and update the displayed current day from calendar directives. +> +> That last is, arguably, the real point of running ikiwiki-calendar in +> a cron job. Of course all it really does is run `ikiwiki -setup foo +> -refresh`. --[[Joey]] |