Hi Jimmie, Some or your searches/needs seem similar to mine. So I will share some of the stuff I'm using or considering, which is not Pharo/Smalltalk related and how I plan to connect it with Pharo. On markup language and documentation I'm using pandoc[1], which covers a wide variety of formats (including Html and LaTeX, like Pillar) and works on Windows, Gnu/Linux and Mac with a pretty portable installation. I use Zotero[2] integration vÃa BibTeX and Citezen[3] using Grafoscopio[4], a custom made Pharo interactive documentation system I'm building to learn smalltalk. On the website generation, I was a user/promoter of web2py[5] for several year, but recently I'm migrating towards static site genetators like Nikola[6] and Grav[7] because I don't need any much else for my web presence. [1] http://pandoc.org/ [2] https://www.zotero.org/ [3] http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/ESUG2009Media/uploads/1/citezen-EsugAwards2009.pdf [4] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Offray/Grafoscopio [5] http://web2py.com/ [6] https://getnikola.com/ [7] http://getgrav.org/ My idea is to build an interface from Grafoscopio to this non-pharo technologies like static web site generators, so you can use the interactivity of Pharo/Smalltalk, without having to reinvent the wheel all the time (at least for wheels yo don't care about). I'm trying to find the knowledge/time to put this ideas into practice. Maybe you can consider some of these in your initial overview of the problem and the solutions. Cheers, Offray On 22/09/15 11:30, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
I know there are options to Pier. To a certain extent part of the purpose of my email was to explore whether or not Pier is a viable option and if it has community support that I am not easily seeing.
I want to stick with reasonably well supported options.
I thought the cms and blog parts of Pier looked interesting. This is all personal and not for business or public.
I definitely want to learn Pillar as it is required if at some point I want to contribute to any of the documentation. And it looks like a pretty powerful tool.
I do not have any clearly defined goals which make Pier a requirement. The blog and cms like features are possibly reasonably implementable in the more currently supported options. And those are simply things I am exploring not requiring.
It seems that Doru possibly uses it on the http://www.humane-assessment.com/blog site.
Thanks.
Jimmie
On 09/22/2015 02:38 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
Hi,
Jimmie Houchin <jlhouchin@gmail.com> writes:
I am interested in learning to use Pier. I browsed the mailing list to learn about current status and documentation. It seems to be pretty quiet on the mailing lists.
There seems to be some activity on Smalltalkhub on Pier3.
Pillar, the document model and parser of Pier is alive. I need help but the project is definitely not dead as we use it for all books we are writing.
The rest of Pier, mainly the web interface, looks rather dead for me as well.
Why are you interested in Pier? We might help you find other projects that could suit your needs.