Hello

I released a new version of Foliage: v2.1.0

Foliage is a static web page generator.
It takes as input Microdown (including HTML) and generates HTML.

Features

It supports:
- Composable template
- Simple yet nice blog
- [For researchers ] automated publication list generation
- Plugin architecture to support extension

Examples

• https://www.pharo.org http://www.pharo.org/ is generated using Foliage1.0 but Foliage2.0 can generate it too.
  In the future we will migrate to Foliage 2.0.

• https://stephaneducasse.github.io https://stephaneducasse.github.io/ is an example of Foliage 2.0

Documentation

• There is simple documentation http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage/doc
• In addition https://github.com/FoliageSample is a little example generating a minimal website for Tintin.

Foliage was created by Norbert Hartl.
I extended it
- It uses now the most recent versions of Microdown
- Added tests
- Introduced a plugin architecture
- Support for automated publication list generation

http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage

S.

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Hi Stephane,

both links to the example do not work:

http://www.github.com/Pillar-markup/FoliageSample (from Foliage github page)
https://github.com/FoliageSample (from your mail)

Ciao,
Steffen

stephane ducasse via Pharo-users schrieb am Sonntag, 3. August 2025 15:33:38 (+02:00):

Hello

I released a new version of Foliage: v2.1.0

Foliage is a static web page generator.
It takes as input Microdown (including HTML) and generates HTML.

Features

It supports:
- Composable template
- Simple yet nice blog
- [For researchers ] automated publication list generation
- Plugin architecture to support extension

Examples

• https://www.pharo.org http://www.pharo.org/  is generated using Foliage1.0 but Foliage2.0 can generate it too.
  In the future we will migrate to Foliage 2.0.

• https://stephaneducasse.github.io https://stephaneducasse.github.io/  is an example of Foliage 2.0

Documentation

• There is simple documentation http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage/doc
• In addition https://github.com/FoliageSample is a little example generating a minimal website for Tintin.

Foliage was created by Norbert Hartl.
I extended it
- It uses now the most recent versions of Microdown
- Added tests
- Introduced a plugin architecture
- Support for automated publication list generation

http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage

S.

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Thanks Stef and Offray,

those are really interesting pieces, I am going to look into definitely.

Cheers!
Steffen

Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas via Pharo-users schrieb am Dienstag, 5. August 2025 21:32:41 (+02:00):

Super cool! Nice to have more tools like in the the Pharo toolkit. I did some experiments with Brea my own tool between a static site generator and a headless CMS circa 2019. You can see the documentation site (made in Brea itself) in [[1] and the source code in [2]

Given our extensive usage of TiddlyWiki[3] in the local communities and despite TiddlyWikiPharo[3a] with plenty of data narratives made on it about how our Pharo powered publishing workflows connect with Wordpress [3b], Hugo [3c] or empower linguistic revitalization in the Colombian Amazonas[3d], my explorations this year and the next one would be centered around Cardumem[4], a TiddlyWiki inspired wiki engine made as an hypermedia system[4a] using Lua[4b] and YueScript[4c], to make an complementary exploration to the one I have been doing with Pharo all this years but from the opposite side of the spectrum, with a super embeddable language (family) that still is super simple.

Time will tell about this alternative strategy, and I hope to share my advances and lessons from going back a little bit to file based languages but so far I miss Pharo/GT a lot, as you all know we get spoiled by live coding in Smalltalk inspired/powered systems. But I hope to keep some cross-pollination between ideas and technologies, including Foliage.

Cheers,

Offray

== Links

[1] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/indieweb/
[2] https://code.sustrato.red/Offray/Brea[3] https://tiddlywiki.com/
[3a] https://code.sustrato.red/Offray/TiddlyWikiPharo
[3b] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/gig/doc/trunk/wiki/en/gig-portable-wiki--1apbv.md.html
[3c] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/malleable-systems/doc/tip/wiki/en/malleable-systems-wiki--23fm1.md.html
[3d] https://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/amanecer-palabra/doc/tip/wikis/cartofonias--e45j7.md.html
[4] https://offray.tiddlyhost.com/#Cardumem/En
[4a] https://hypermedia.systems/
[4b] https://www.lua.org/
[4c] https://yuescript.org/doc/

On 3/08/25 8:33, stephane ducasse via Pharo-users wrote:

Hello

I released a new version of Foliage: v2.1.0

Foliage is a static web page generator.
It takes as input Microdown (including HTML) and generates HTML.

Features

It supports:
- Composable template
- Simple yet nice blog
- [For researchers ] automated publication list generation
- Plugin architecture to support extension

Examples

• https://www.pharo.org http://www.pharo.org/  is generated using Foliage1.0 but Foliage2.0 can generate it too.
  In the future we will migrate to Foliage 2.0.

• https://stephaneducasse.github.io https://stephaneducasse.github.io/  is an example of Foliage 2.0

Documentation

• There is simple documentation http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage/doc
• In addition https://github.com/FoliageSample is a little example generating a minimal website for Tintin.

Foliage was created by Norbert Hartl.
I extended it
- It uses now the most recent versions of Microdown
- Added tests
- Introduced a plugin architecture
- Support for automated publication list generation

http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage

S.

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Hi,

this mail is not meant to disapprove your release, Stef.

But I want to say that I find it strange to see a release of my project from another source. I did not abandon the project and will pick it up a bit later. So this is the source of my confusion.

It also might be a weak point about the model of forking projects. While forking and progressing projects is a very useful thing, making releases from every source feels strange.

Norbert

Am 03.08.2025 um 15:34 schrieb stephane ducasse via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>:

Hello

I released a new version of Foliage: v2.1.0

Foliage is a static web page generator.

It takes as input Microdown (including HTML) and generates HTML.

### Features

It supports:

• Composable template

• Simple yet nice blog

• [For researchers ] automated publication list generation

• Plugin architecture to support extension

### Examples

• https://www.pharo.org is generated using Foliage1.0 but Foliage2.0 can generate it too.

In the future we will migrate to Foliage 2.0.

• https://stephaneducasse.github.io is an example of Foliage 2.0

### Documentation

• There is simple documentation http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage/doc

• In addition https://github.com/FoliageSample is a little example generating a minimal website for Tintin.

Foliage was created by Norbert Hartl.

I extended it

• It uses now the most recent versions of Microdown

• Added tests

• Introduced a plugin architecture

• Support for automated publication list generation

http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage

S.

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Hi Stef,

Am 07.08.2025 um 17:17 schrieb stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:

Hi Norbert

There was no activity since years on this project.

I know but ApptiveGrid takes all my time so it just looks unmaintained. In those cases it might be a good idea to ask.

My bad.

I will rename all the classes and the project and like that there will be no confusion:

• I spent 6 months changing microdown to rescue the extension Esteban did (that did not work in recent microdown) to be able to build the Pharo website.

• I cleaned the dependency to old pillar classes.

I‘m not sure you should do all of this. Or you could still do later. Let‘s rather talk and see if there is a common base which I would welcome. Rename and continuing is also ok for me.

Norbert

S

On 7 Aug 2025, at 10:35, Norbert Hartl via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote:

Hi,

this mail is not meant to disapprove your release, Stef.

But I want to say that I find it strange to see a release of my project from another source. I did not abandon the project and will pick it up a bit later. So this is the source of my confusion.

It also might be a weak point about the model of forking projects. While forking and progressing projects is a very useful thing, making releases from every source feels strange.

Norbert

Am 03.08.2025 um 15:34 schrieb stephane ducasse via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>:

Hello

I released a new version of Foliage: v2.1.0

Foliage is a static web page generator.

It takes as input Microdown (including HTML) and generates HTML.

### Features

It supports:

• Composable template

• Simple yet nice blog

• [For researchers ] automated publication list generation

• Plugin architecture to support extension

### Examples

• https://www.pharo.org is generated using Foliage1.0 but Foliage2.0 can generate it too.

In the future we will migrate to Foliage 2.0.

• https://stephaneducasse.github.io is an example of Foliage 2.0

### Documentation

• There is simple documentation http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage/doc

• In addition https://github.com/FoliageSample is a little example generating a minimal website for Tintin.

Foliage was created by Norbert Hartl.

I extended it

• It uses now the most recent versions of Microdown

• Added tests

• Introduced a plugin architecture

• Support for automated publication list generation

http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage

S.

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Stef,

I didn‘t want you to be stressed about that. It is all not so serious. Do as you prefer even if you keep the project name. As there is no problem right now there is no action to be taken. I just wanted to express my confusion.

Maybe just continue is the best for you. I‘m interested in joining forces but I won‘t find time now to do it. So you are in control.

I understand that you want to go fast. And if I recall what mess you did to pillar I might even prefer a full fork 😉 and continue my way on foliage later.

Norbert

Am 07.08.2025 um 17:37 schrieb stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>:

Hi

I started to rename the project in EcstatiK and I was starting to rename all the classes but I will stop and keep it like that (except if you want to keep the name) under pillar-markup.

So let me

• do you prefer that I rename it?

• do you prefer to join the pillar verion? and gain benefit the energy I spent.

I will not found of pushing changes to your repo because I want the freedom to go fast

and I do not know if you have the time to follow our burst of dev.

For me this project is an important one and I spent already a lot of time to arrive to the point I needed.

S.

On 7 Aug 2025, at 17:17, stephane ducasse via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote:

Hi Norbert

There was no activity since years on this project.

My bad.

I will rename all the classes and the project and like that there will be no confusion:

• I spent 6 months changing microdown to rescue the extension Esteban did (that did not work in recent microdown) to be able to build the Pharo website.

• I cleaned the dependency to old pillar classes.

S

On 7 Aug 2025, at 10:35, Norbert Hartl via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote:

Hi,

this mail is not meant to disapprove your release, Stef.

But I want to say that I find it strange to see a release of my project from another source. I did not abandon the project and will pick it up a bit later. So this is the source of my confusion.

It also might be a weak point about the model of forking projects. While forking and progressing projects is a very useful thing, making releases from every source feels strange.

Norbert

Am 03.08.2025 um 15:34 schrieb stephane ducasse via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>:

Hello

I released a new version of Foliage: v2.1.0

Foliage is a static web page generator.

It takes as input Microdown (including HTML) and generates HTML.

### Features

It supports:

• Composable template

• Simple yet nice blog

• [For researchers ] automated publication list generation

• Plugin architecture to support extension

### Examples

• https://www.pharo.org is generated using Foliage1.0 but Foliage2.0 can generate it too.

In the future we will migrate to Foliage 2.0.

• https://stephaneducasse.github.io is an example of Foliage 2.0

### Documentation

• There is simple documentation http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage/doc

• In addition https://github.com/FoliageSample is a little example generating a minimal website for Tintin.

Foliage was created by Norbert Hartl.

I extended it

• It uses now the most recent versions of Microdown

• Added tests

• Introduced a plugin architecture

• Support for automated publication list generation

http://github.com/pillar-markup/Foliage

S.

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes

Stéphane Ducasse
http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
06 30 93 66 73

"If you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do differently? ....ESPECIALLY if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth.” Calvin & Hobbes