Fill config.md automatically

[Wikunia]

I just tried out the package. Thanks for the awesome work!

One thing I think would be awesome is to fill some parts of the config.md automatically like:

• github_repo
• title
• authors
• prepath (whatever that actually is :D ) is that the folder name of the package?
• docs_url would be the github repo stable docs (would not work for a custom domain)

This could be done with https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Git.jl which is an old package so maybe not the best thing. Or using run commands to call git directly. Not too sure whether that works in Windows :/
To be save it's done in a try catch block such that nothing breaks.

Ah yeah some of the information can be taken from Project.toml

If interested I would work on a PR.

[tlienart]

I'm unclear on whether Git.jl would be more appropriate than JuliaLang/TOML.jl?

also we'd need fallback stuff in case there's no project.toml available etc.

[Wikunia]

We don't get the github_repo and docs_url from that, right?

[zlatanvasovic]

It's a good feature, if you want to work on it. You may also want to see how PkgTemplates handles custom parameters on initialization.

[tlienart]

So I still think it's a good idea, but now basically it needs something that catches the stuff from the PkgPage/page at the moment of writing them in newpage but it has to be done in the process (can't be done in the source page).

basically it'll be a bunch of

s = read(joinpath(store, "config.md"), String)
s = replace(s, r"@def(\s+)authors(\s*)=\s*\".*?\"" => SubstitutionString("@def\1authors\2= \"$authors\""))

Ps: @Wikunia I added you as contributor

[Wikunia]

I'm not sure I get the new idea so just to be sure:
You define authors in newpage either by a given parameter from the user maybe or using the approach I took with LibGit2 and TOML? but replace it there directly instead of changing the config.md file?

[tlienart]

right so you can't rely on the trick {{...}} anymore because the source file is the config file used on our actual page.

At the moment newpage copies files from PkgPage.jl/page among which config.md.

I'm suggesting not copying over config.md and rather capturing it's content, replacing what you can with information you get from ambient TOML or whatever and then writing config.md in the destination folder with these imputed values.

[Wikunia]

Oh I see the reason now. Thanks for clarification

[Wikunia]

Then I would probably create three dictionaries. One TOML one Git and one default and use.
merge(default, toml_dict, git_dict).

• iterate over the keys in replace

[tlienart]

btw this could probably be extended to get the DeployPage.yml file automatically adjust to the path of the source (atm it's hard coded to page and the instructions say that you have to change that yourself but it could also be done automatically by doing the same kind of procedure with DeployPage.yml)

edit: same with .gitattributes