Out of curiosity (as Pillar - well actually Ecstatic, was on my next hitlist to research), but is it so different from something like JavaScripts Metalsmith.io ? I found metalsmith���s publishing pipeline and plugin system quite intuitive and easy to use but I just didn���t like nodejs so much (and the crappy webpack/brunch auto reloading systems).

It struck me that what they were doing was quite trivial in Smalltalk and I assumed Pillar (and Ecstatic) were similar in concept. However when I had a peak it did look quite complicated and made me think that porting Metalsmith might be easier and in interesting personal project.

Anyway, might be worth a look if you want architectural inspiration.

Tim

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On 2 Aug 2017, at 18:19, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm because Pillar is central to all my writings around Pharo (books,
slides,...).
We also want to use it for a lecture on open-source development.

Pillar got too complex and we should simplify its architecture.

I'm working on a new version of Cocoon but this tedious and I got
stuck in managing
initialisation of fields (from text to objects). now I will continue
to work but task switching is killing me.
Guillermo is helping me from time to time and damien helps me with the
makefile/latex.

I will first finish all the slides for my lectures at Prague first.

Now we made
- sure that we can run archetype without being forced to passed by the
command-line.
- and many changes and cleanup.
Now we should work on

- Make sure that we identify for real bugs showing up in the three
different archetypes (slides, books...).
- Avoid to convert to JSON files to apply mustache.

- Rethink the architecture.
    - Like removing the dependency on magritte from the core.
    - Avoid a lot of strange behavior related to metadata handling.

Stef


On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Alexandre Bergel
<alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:

Pillar is becoming central in the way I produce documents.
Is there anyone working on improving Pillar?

Alexandre
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On Aug 2, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi martin

I would like to wlak over epicea objects and save the changed methods
to be able to write booklets faster.
What advices can you give me?
Create a special visitor?

Stef