Nikola8

[DietmarSchwertberger]

A first attempt.
I have removed all requirements except Nikola itself.

I have tested with Python 3.12 and the current Nikola 8.3.1.
The result looks reasonable close to the current website version. I'm just missing the number of comments.

The conf.py is a merge from the old version with the currrent template from Nikola.

The wxPython theme uses bootstrap3 as base. I tried bootstrap4, but then the navigation popups were not formatted correctly.
To install nikola theme -i bootstrap3 is required. Is it possible to do this automatically?
I would have included a local copy into the repository, but .gitignore has some theme related entries:

themes/base/
themes/bootstrap3/
themes/bootswatch/

Maybe, Robin did use local, modified copies. Should I remove the ignore entries and include a bootstrap3 copy?

The modifications include a local version of the listing.plugin to avoid the empty lineanchors
(at plugins/compile/rest/listing.plugin, the utils.NikolaPygmentsHTML argument anchor_ref is commented out).
This should fix the accessibility problems with the code samples wxWidgets/Phoenix#2677
It can be removed once Pygments PR pygments/pygments#2848 is merged into a release.

[DietmarSchwertberger]

The category descriptions seem to be case sensitive. They're now News and Blog.

[swt2c]

Hey @DietmarSchwertberger thanks for your work on this.

I added a deploy preview Github Action that will attempt to build the site and deploy it to a preview location so we can easily review it. It seems the build is running into an error (see the failing check).

mako.exceptions.TopLevelLookupException: Can't locate template for uri 'homepage_postlist.tmpl'

Also to answer some of your earlier questions: if you need to add nikola theme -i bootstrap3 you can add it to .github/actions/build-website/action.yml (you will probably have to merge or rebase to see this file as I just added it).

[DietmarSchwertberger]

Thanks. I will try to add the action for the bootstrap3 installation.
The failing check is most likely a secondary effect.
I get the same message when bootstrap3 is missing.
[2025-02-06 04:37:45] WARNING: Nikola: Cannot load theme "wxpy-theme", using 'bootblog4' instead.

[DietmarSchwertberger]

Seems that the generation now is running through. The deployment itself is failing, obviously.

[swt2c]

I thought the deployment would actually work (it was supposed to deploy to a preview location), but after looking at it, it doesn't work when the pull request is from a fork, for security reasons. The preview is visible here:

#10

It looks good to me, other than the number of comments issue. I'll try to look into that, unless you have any ideas.

[DietmarSchwertberger]

Thanks.
No, I don't have an idea why the number of comments is not shown any more.
I have to admit I did not dive too deep into Nikola.
I'm not a fan of such a declarative approach as it's always difficult to figure out which setting influences which output, even with a debugger.
I would have prefered a set of libraries that a build script would then call step by step. Similarly, how I prefer the imperative approach of wxWidgets over Qt's QML.

[DietmarSchwertberger]

Regarding the problem with bootstrap4, see the screenshots here:
getnikola/nikola#3817 (comment)

[swt2c]

OK so the comments do seem to be working now, so I think we are good.