NewFeatures: Chronological entries

DWiki now has a simple hierarchical way of handling access to pages for various things (both access and commentability), so you can give (or take away) permissions for things to entire directory trees at a shot. We use a simple implementation where directories can have a magic file called __access, which creates default permissions for everything under them.

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DWiki now has an extremely low-rent generic from-the-web search functionality. It's so low-rent I'm not sure I'm going to keep it, but we'll have to see.

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DWiki now supports comments on pages; comments are themselves written in DWikiText. Currently pages have to be specifically enabled for this; in the future I will have a better global or semi-global mechanism for this.

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As part of the fallout of other work, I fixed the nit where 'View Source' would show as a page tool on pages where viewing the source would get you a permission or unavailability error.

With blog-style things now decently supported, there is the problem that some pages want to be longer than is comfortable for display in a blog setting. Now wikitext can signal that only the front should be shown in some contexts, like so:

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Directories can now have default view types associated with them, by the simple yet sleazy method of touching a file in them called .flag.prefview:<viewname>.

This lets us auto-set a directory to default to a blogdir view.

The page tools now autogenerate a list of 'See As <whatever>' links for alternate directory formats.

This required some innards magic to distinguish a normal view being explicitly specified from no view being specified and us just defaulting to a normal view.

Directories can now be displayed as a 'blogdir', which treats the files in the directory as if they were blog entries: they are sorted by modification time, most recent first, and then they are all displayed inline with a title.

A chunk of this behavior is controlled by templates and new renderers. 'blogdir' is a new view, only valid for directories, which uses blogdir.tmpl. The blog::blogdir renderer does the direct expansion, running each file through the template blog/blogentry.tmpl.

There are also new renderers for the new blog-like time format and for showing the owner of a file. (Currently the Unix and/or RCS owner.)

This is ... how shall we say it ... not hugely scalable over the long run in terms of time structure and number of entries.