Co-serving a static site over Gemini

[Hannu Hartikainen]

Hi there, robot!

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 04:10, <ext0l at riseup.net> wrote:
> I'd like to serve it over Gemini as well. So I'm working on a project
> <https://github.com/deifactor/exarch> to do so.

Nice project! I also have a Zola site and would like something similar
for Gemini. I did actually implement a rudimentary non-HTML support in
Zola itself [0] but it (understandably) feels like the maintainer
doesn't like the direction this would take the project. I contemplated
a Zola fork but it's quite HTML centric so not sure about that.

[0] https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/1059

If you want my opinions I think building static files is much better
than generating static content on request. And the big features in
Zola that would adapt to Gemini are template support and Atom feeds.
Still, I'm not sure if it's worthwhile to try adapting the same
content to Gemini. I think a simpler static site generator without
markdown might be more suited.

Now that I think about it, I should think about a Gemini specific SSG
a bit more. I've broken stuff with my Makefile+gemfeed+md2gemini based
weird system too many times. (Most recently I broke some Atom
timestamps today, and I haven't yet fixed that.)

-Hannu