cleaning up gopher publishing + more verbose docs

ttbp/gopher.py

@@ -4,22 +4,28 @@ This module contains gopher-related stuff.
 import getpass
 import os
 import time
+import subprocess
 
 from . import util
 from .core import parse_date
 
 GOPHER_PROMPT = """
-Would you like to publish your feels to gopher?
-
 gopher is a pre-web technology that is text-oriented and primarily used to
 share folders of your files with the world.
 
+Would you like to publish your feels to gopher?
+
+Entries you write will automatically get linked to ~/public_gopher/feels/,
+including gophermap generation. Files you manually delete will no longer be
+visible from your gopherhole, and will be purged from your gophermap on your
+next entry update.
+
 If you don't know what it is or don't want it that is totally ok!
 
 You can always change this later.""".lstrip()
 
 GOPHERMAP_HEADER = """
- welcome to {user}'s feels on gopher.
+ welcome to {user}'s gopherfeels.
 
      .::                     .::
    .:                        .::
@@ -29,7 +35,7 @@ GOPHERMAP_HEADER = """
    .::  .:        .:         .::    .::
    .::    .::::     .::::   .:::.:: .::
 
- this file was created on their behalf by ttbp.
+ this file is automatically generated by ttbp.
 
 0(about ttbp)\t/~endorphant/ttbp.txt\ttilde.town\t70
 1(back to user's home)\t/~{user}
@@ -52,7 +58,7 @@ def publish_gopher(gopher_path, entry_filenames):
         gopher_path)
 
     if not os.path.isdir(ttbp_gopher):
-        print('\n\tERROR: something is wrong. your gopher directory is missing. re-enable gopher publishing.')
+        print('\n\tERROR: something is wrong. your gopher directory is missing. re-enable gopher publishing from the settings menu to fix this up!')
         return
 
     with open(os.path.join(ttbp_gopher, 'gophermap'), 'w') as gophermap:
@@ -61,11 +67,15 @@ def publish_gopher(gopher_path, entry_filenames):
         for entry_filename in entry_filenames:
             filename = os.path.basename(entry_filename)
 
+            ''' old file copying bit
             with open(os.path.join(ttbp_gopher, filename), 'w') as gopher_entry:
                 with open(entry_filename, 'r') as source_entry:
                     gopher_entry.write(source_entry.read())
+            '''
+            # symlink instead
+
+            subprocess.call(["ln", "-s", entry_filename, os.path.join(ttbp_gopher, os.path.basename(entry_fileNAME))])
 
-            #label = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M", time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(entry_filename)))
             label = "-".join(parse_date(entry_filename))
             gophermap.write('0{file_label}\t{filename}\n'.format(
                 file_label=label,
@@ -75,8 +85,8 @@ def publish_gopher(gopher_path, entry_filenames):
 def setup_gopher(gopher_path):
     """Given a path relative to ~/public_gopher, this function:
 
-    - creates a directory under public_gopher
+    - creates a directory ~/.ttbp/gopher
-    - creates a landing page
+    - symlinks that directory to ~/public_gopher/{gopher_path}
 
     It doesn't create a gophermap as that is left to the publish_gopher
     function.
@@ -91,4 +101,8 @@ def setup_gopher(gopher_path):
         print("\n\tERROR: gopher path is already set up. quitting so we don't overwrite anything.")
         return
 
-    os.makedirs(ttbp_gopher)
+    #os.makedirs(ttbp_gopher)
+
+    gopher_entries = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~/.ttbp"), "gopher")
+    os.makedirs(gopher_entries)
+    subprocess.call(["ln", "-s", gopher_entries, ttbp_gopher])

ttbp/ttbp.py

@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ def valid_setup():
         if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(config.WWW, SETTINGS.get("pubish dir"))):
             return False
 
+    if not SETTINGS.get("gopher"):
+        return False
+
     return True
 
 def setup_repair():
@@ -376,9 +379,9 @@ def setup():
     master setup function
 
     * editor selection
-    * publishing toggle
+    * publishing toggle (publish/unpublish as needed)
-    * publish/unpublish as needed
     * directory selection
+    * gopher opt in/out
 
     TODO: break this out better?
     '''
@@ -661,15 +664,13 @@ def show_credits():
     '''
 
     print("""
-ttbp was written by ~endorphant in python. the codebase is
+ttbp was written for tilde.town by ~endorphant in python. the codebase is
 publicly available on github at https://github.com/modgethanc/ttbp
 
 other contributors:
     ~vilmibm, packaging help and gopher support
     ~sanqui, the bug swatter
 
-for the full changelog, see ~endorphant/projects/ttbp/changelog.txt
-
 if you have ideas for ttbp, you are welcome to contact me to discuss them;
 please send me tildemail or open a github issue. i am not a very experienced
 developer, and ttbp is one of my first public-facing projects, so i appreciate
@@ -719,8 +720,9 @@ editor.
         core.write("index.html")
         left = "posted to "+config.LIVE+config.USER+"/"+str(SETTINGS.get("publish dir"))+"/index.html\n\n>"
 
-    if SETTINGS['gopher']:
+    if SETTINGS.get('gopher'):
         gopher.publish_gopher('feels', core.get_files())
+        left += "also posted to your ~/public_gopher!"
     redraw(left + " thanks for sharing your feels!")
 
     return