[ANN] soupault: a static website generator based on HTML rewriting

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soupault 1.8.0 is released along with Lua-ML 0.9.1.
Lua-ML now raises Failure when Lua code execution fails. There’s much room for improvement in that area, for now I’ve just done something that is better than just displaying errors on stderr but otherwise allowing syntax and runtime errors pass silently.
If you have any ideas how perfect interpreter error reporting should work, please share!

As of improvements in soupault itself, there’s now:

  • A way for plugins to specify their minimum supported soupault version like Plugin.require_version("1.8.0")
  • TARGET_DIR environment variable and target_dir Lua global that contains the directory where the rendered page will be written, to make it easier for plugins/scripts to place processed assets together with pages.
  • “Build profiles”: if you add profile = "production" or similar to widget config, that widget will be ignored unless you run soupault --profile production.
  • A bunch of new utility functions for plugins.
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