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Web site changes

05 February 2003

The few visible recent changes to the website (plus the occasional glitch) mask a lot more changes underneath. The most significant change is that the site is now available, in the same format, at both www.gnu.org/software/gnue/ and www.gnuenterprise.org.


It's been an aim of ours for a while to have the same web site on both www.gnu.org and www.gnuenterprise.org, replacing the old situation where we had two seperate sites, at least one of which was not being kept up to date. The new website is maintained directly in our HTML CVS on savannah, and is then checked out to www.gnu.org (automatically whenever it changes) and to www.gnuenterprise.org (daily using cron, or more often if required).

In order to make the site work in CVS, we have worked without a "proper" content management system, most of which use php or Zope. Instead, the site does some basic templating in python, generating "true" html from "source" files. This is probably similar to how many other GNU projects do their websites, except they'll use perl, XSLT or Emacs-LISP...

One effect of putting the site into CVS is that anyone with CVS write access to the GNUe code also now has write access to the website, without having to go through a central individual or server to update the "master copy." However, please read the readme for the website before changing anything!


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