From: Denis Defreyne <denis.defreyne@...>
Date: 2009-08-15T03:32:43+09:00
Subject: [ANN] nanoc 3.0

Hi.

I'm happy to announce the final release of nanoc 3.0, the latest  
version of nanoc, a web publishing tool aimed at small to medium-sized  
static or semi-static web sites.

You can install it using Rubygems:

	sudo gem install nanoc3

If you are new to nanoc, I recommend checking out the tutorial[tut]  
and, if you need more, the manual[man].

If you have used nanoc 2.x before, the tutorial[tut] is still a very  
good resource. You'll definitely want to check out the migration  
guide[mig], and perhaps the manual[man] as well.

[tut]: http://nanoc.stoneship.org/tutorial/
[man]: http://nanoc.stoneship.org/manual/
[mig]: http://nanoc.stoneship.org/migrating/

Compatibility with nanoc 2.x
----------------------------

nanoc 3.0 is not backward compatible with previous nanoc versions.  
This is deliberate: focus on the future, leave the past behind. A  
nanoc 2.x site cannot be compiled with nanoc 3.0.

Fortunately, nanoc 2.x and 3.0 can be installed side by side. The  
nanoc 2.x commandline tool is called `nanoc` while the nanoc 3.0 one  
is called `nanoc3`; similarly, the nanoc 2.x namespace is `Nanoc` and  
the nanoc 3.0 one is `Nanoc3`. In other words, you can easily use both  
nanoc 2.x and 3.0 simultaneously.

New Features
------------

Here's a short list with the biggest additions to nanoc 3.0:

* Multiple data sources so you can load data from multiple locations– 
for example, Twitter, Delicious and Last.fm.

* Filter arguments so you can pass extra arguments when executing a  
filter. For example, you can now pass Haml options when executing  
filters, like this: filter :haml, :format => :html5.

* A more compact filesystem-based data source called  
filesystem_combined that doesn’t require tons of directories in the  
content and layout directories. Cleaner and less verbose.

* An all-new dependency tracking system that ensures that all modified  
items and their dependent items are recompiled when the site is  
compiled. This speeds up site compilation by preventing non-modified  
pages from being recompiled.

* A rules file which allows processing instructions (filtering pages,  
laying out pages) to be specified in a much more DRY way. In addition,  
the rules file is much more powerful than specifying processing  
instructions using item/layout attributes.

If you have questions, feel to drop by on the mailinglist[list] or the  
IRC channel[irc]. On IRC, I'm not always around, but when I am, I'll  
be happy to answer any questions you have.

[list]: http://groups.google.com/group/nanoc/
[irc]:  irc://chat.freenode.net/#nanoc

Regards,

Denis

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Denis Defreyne
denis.defreyne@stoneship.org