[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: gitit 0.2 release - wiki using HAppS, git, pandoc

[Chris Eidhof]

If anyone else has problems installing gitit, try updating your cabal- 
install (and cabal). I had "old" versions on my computer, and updating  
them solved my gitit build-problems.

-chris

On 9 nov 2008, at 22:41, John MacFarlane wrote:

> I've just uploaded a new version (0.2.1) that requires HAppS >=  
> 0.9.3 &&
> < 0.9.4. (There are small API changes from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3, so I  
> thought
> it best not to allow 0.9.2.x, even though it still compiles with a
> warning.)
>
> +++ Hugo Pacheco [Nov 09 08 20:41 ]:
>>   a new HAppS version [1]0.9.3.1 has been released, and gitit  
>> requires
>>   HApps==[2]0.9.2.1. should ti be ok just to relax the dependency?
>>
>>   On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:32 PM, John MacFarlane <[3]jgm at berkeley.edu 
>> >
>>   wrote:
>>
>>     I've uploaded an early version of gitit, a Haskell wiki  
>> program, to
>>     HackageDB. Gitit uses HAppS as a webserver, git for file storage,
>>     pandoc for rendering the (markdown) pages, and highlighting- 
>> kate for
>>     highlighted source code.
>>
>>     Some nice features of gitit:
>>
>>      - Pages and uploaded files are stored in a git repository and  
>> may
>>        be added, deleted, and modified directly using git.
>>      - Pages may be organized into subdirectories.
>>      - Pandoc's extended version of markdown is used, so you can do  
>> tables,
>>        footnotes, syntax-highlighted code blocks, and LaTeX math.  
>> (And
>>        you can you pandoc to convert pages into many other formats.)
>>      - Math is rendered using jsMath (which must be installed
>>        separately).
>>      - Source code files in the repository are automatically  
>> rendered with
>>        syntax highlighting (plain/text version is also available).
>>
>>     You can check it out on my webserver: [4]http://johnmacfarlane.net:5001/
>>     Or try it locally:
>>
>>        cabal update
>>        cabal install pandoc -fhighlighting
>>        cabal install gitit
>>        gitit  # note: this will create two subdirectories in the  
>> working
>>     directory
>>        # then browse to [5]http://localhost:5001.
>>
>>     There's a git repository at [6]http://github.com/jgm/gitit/tree/master 
>> .
>>     Comments and patches are welcome.
>>
>>     John
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>> References
>>
>>   Visible links
>>   1. http://0.9.3.1/
>>   2. http://0.9.2.1/
>>   3. mailto:jgm at berkeley.edu
>>   4. http://johnmacfarlane.net:5001/
>>   5. http://localhost:5001/
>>   6. http://github.com/jgm/gitit/tree/master
>>   7. mailto:Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org
>>   8. http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
>>   9. http://www.di.uminho.pt/~hpacheco
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