2022-04-16
Since 2013 I have not posted anything on my old weblog and have, from time to time, been looking around for weblog generation software. But in the end I've been procrastinating while new thoughts and insights have been coming up. Some of them are written down, some on paper and some electronically of which some online as proper articles. However, a lot is not seen by the Internet whereas it should as some folks might find it useful or amusing.
Here I found something called Zola, which is a static site generator (written in Rust) and is available as an OpenBSD package. It seemed too good to be true, for the package does not appear to be maintained: the latest message on the OpenBSD ports mailinglist on progress on this port is from November 2020 and so it is lagging at version 0.10.0 whereas the latest is 0.15.3. Problem is: I first went ahead with installing and using it, came across a bug (crash on adding static files) and only then found out that I was using an old version. Since I only have so much time, I went ahead anyway and deployed it on this server. The Markdown files (so far just this one excluding template files) are in a Mercurial repository making it straighforward to move them to another site generator if needed. For now I stay with this and asked the port maintainer if a new OpenBSD package version is to be published any time soon.
Update 2024-10-13: The port is now at version 0.18.0, so the port maintainer is updating it sometimes. Possibly my friendly question helped!