[pmwiki-users] want opinions on a new cookbook recipe format

Susan pmwiki at onebit.ca
Tue Mar 7 12:14:49 CST 2006


Maybe "PmWiki Version Last Tested On"

Yes, a bit of a pain for the recipes that the core changes don't affect, 
but it gives me confidence that the recipe wasn't just written, posted 
and forgotten about.

Susan


Dominique Faure wrote:
> On 3/7/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:42:53AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps instead of "Version:" or "Recipe-version:" we should just use
>>>"Date:" or "Updated:"?
>>
>>Actually, here's another big reason to be careful about "Version:" --
>>{$Version} is already taken as a page variable,  and there's already
>>a 'version' attribute in page files.
>>
>>So, we'd need a different page variable to represent the version
>>of a recipe, and {$RecipeVersion} seems like a nice way to go.
>>Of course, this means we should probably use {$RecipeSummary},
>>{$RecipeVotes}, etc., which means we could leave the markup lines
>>as "Summary:", "Version:", etc. and simply have them saved as
>>"recipesummary", "recipeversion", etc. attributes and available
>>as {$RecipeSummary}, {$RecipeVersion} variables.
>>
>>It might be nice to have a generic form for saved page properties,
>>though, instead of tagging it with a specific name like "Recipe".
>>Maybe {$PropVersion}, {$PropSummary}.  Or maybe another
>>character besides just the '$', as in {$.Version} or {%Version}
>>or something like that.  :-|
>>
> 
> 
> {$$Version} ?
> 
> with maybe an optional page name before the two $ ?
> 
> Dom





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