From 2e1fa14a737312d852fd33d7c8518da01695c7da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:20:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] same dependency problem as plugins/contrib/trail :-( --- doc/bugs/conditional_preprocess_during_scan.mdwn | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/conditional_preprocess_during_scan.mdwn b/doc/bugs/conditional_preprocess_during_scan.mdwn index 896998bf8..baa430e19 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/conditional_preprocess_during_scan.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/conditional_preprocess_during_scan.mdwn @@ -8,3 +8,12 @@ I've written a simple [[patch]] to fix the issue, currently hosted on the scanif branch of my repository. The patch also passes the preview option back to the Ikiwiki::preprocess call, making sure that whatever is being reprocessed is done so in the same conditions as the original call. + +> One problem with this is that it has the same dependency-ordering problems +> as inline-based or pagespec-based trails with my [[plugins/contrib/trail]] +> plugin: `if` takes a pagespec, but pagespecs aren't guaranteed to match +> correctly until everything has been scanned (for instance, `link()` might +> give the wrong results because a page that added or deleted a link hasn't +> been scanned yet). If you have a clever idea for how to fix this, I'd love +> to hear it - being able to specify a [[plugins/contrib/trail]] in terms +> of a sorted pagespec would be useful. --[[smcv]]