org2blog released

org2blog is now released as alpha quality software

It is released as a tarball of:

• Org2blog itself
• Supporting package tinydb
• Diffs to g-client
  • g-client is by T V Raman
• Diffs to org-mode
  • org-mode is by Carsten Dominik, with many additions by others including myself.

To run it you'll also need:

• org-mode
• To patch org-mode
• g-client
• To patch g-client
• Bravery (or an equivalent amount of foolhardiness)

Some short documentation is in org2blog/README.org Basically:

• Have a Blogger account
• M-x gblogger-blog
  • That will give a parse error - T V tells me it's missing an external entity - but it will set up the blog posting url for your blog
• Write a blog post (which I'm doing right now)
• M-x org2blog-post
• And it will appear on Blogger, just like this did (or will).

Summary of changes to g-client

• User-visible changes
  • Some automatic capture of data, by only these interface functions:
    • gphoto-feeds
    • gphoto-photo-add
    • gblogger-blog
    • gblogger-new-entry
  • Changed gphoto-photo-add to ask for an album name from the list of albums, not an album id number.
  • Added a more flexible way of getting authentication: Just customize (new variable) `g-user-auth-function'
  • Hooks
    • `g-app-afterpost-hook' which should be a function taking 2 args:
      • The source filename
      • The remote url
  • gphoto treats non-jpgs
    • Can find them in directories
    • (Forthcoming) Sends the right Content-Type for them.
    • Uses (both emacs-bundled packages) `image' and `image-file' to know about image file types.
  • g-load-defs.el now can be used as a symlink with my-site-start, because it knows its real location.
• Internal additions:
  • Added optional arguments to some interfaces
    • Mostly to pass storers around
      • g-app-send-buffer
      • g-app-view
  • Added internal variables
    • To hold captured data
      • gphoto-album-list
      • gphoto-user-api-location
    • To name new XSL scripts
      • g-xsl-blogpost->url
      • g-xsl-photopost->url
      • g-xsl-feed->albums
    • To hold a buffer-local storer until g-app posts
      • g-app-storer
  • Many commands associated with capturing data
    • gblogger-blog-assign-data
    • gphoto-feeds-assign-data
    • g-app-setup-capture
    • g-util-capture-x
    • g-util-capture
  • Created some convenience functions because I found myself repeating code:
    • g-app-shell-command
    • g-app-build-command
    • g-app-build-storer
    • g-app-setup-posting
    • g-app-succeeded
    • g-display-common
  • Changed g-auth to use customizable variable `g-user-auth-function' for initial authentication.
    • Added g-user-default-auth-function, that variable's default value.

Would have liked real test code

I would have liked to write proper test code for this.

Unfortunately, I basically need an immutable remote site to do it. I contacted Google about this but never heard back from them. That made development more difficult.