hyde-gopher

Serve your Hyde site over Gopher. (This is primarily made possible by flask-gopher, yay.)

Installation

pandoc is needed to parse Markdown, so you'll need to have this installed.

Release

You can install the latest relase from PyPI by running

python3 -m pip install hyde-gopher

From source

If you want to use the latest development snapshot (which may be broken), you'll need to clone or download the repository and then install the package with:

python3 -m pip install .

If you don't want to install anything, you can replace hyde-gopher with python3 -m hyde_gopher.main in the following steps.

Usage

Setup

As Gopher supports only absolute links and there's no such thing as a Host header, hyde-gopher needs to know the absolute base path of your site when generating the static site. (If you're using the built-in webserver this is currently being guessed from the bind configuration which may lead to broken links. Please use the built-in webserver just for local tests and not for internet-facing deployments.)

There are also a few things you might want to configure but don't have to.

To do so, add the following lines to your site.yaml:

gopher_base_url: gopher://gopher.mysite.invalid:71/~user/ # needed
gopher_layout_root: layout_gopher # this is the default
gopher_width: 70 # this is the default

If you don't want to create your layout from scratch you can use a bundled one – to do so, run hyde-gopher init.

Serve

You can use the built-in webserver for a quick test – and also for pre-viewing your site while editing it.

To do so, run hyde-gopher serve.

Per default, this will serve the site from the current working directory at gopher://localhost:7070/, placing generated files into deploy_gopher/. (You can change this, see hyde-gopher -h and hyde-gopher serve -h for more options.)

Generate

The primary purpose of hyde-gopher is to generate a static site (just like hyde's).

To do so, run hyde-gopher gen.

Per default, this will generate a static version of the site from the current working directory to the folder deploy_gopher/. (You can change this, see hyde-gopher -h and hyde-gopher gen -h for more options.)

Knonwn issues / TODO

• links in HTML pages are not rendered as links (it works in Markdown, though)
• images are only linked if you use a macro to render them
• just HTML files, binaries and folders are considered

Gotchas

hyde-gopher needs Python >= 3.6.

The currenty stable release of hyde (0.8.9) needs Python < 3. You'll need to install the pre-release of hyde 0.9.0 to get this working:

python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/hyde/hyde.git@V0.9.0