Today I tried to add some content. In doing so, I wanted to upgrade Fabric to get some additional features. I took a blind leap of faith and just wiped out my virtualenv and just tried to reinstall. Incidentally, the hyde branch that I had been following no longer exists, and so I chased my tail trying to figure out why the hell I couldn’t pull the latest.

So, I’ve been forced to upgrade to the latest hyde. I don’t know what that means yet, hopefully this site will continue to generate and I can clean it up with Jinja2 templates over time. I might lose some features in the short term, but the new Hyde includes several niceties such as tags (which I’ve been wanting to do for a while) and some optimization stuff. On top of that, I like Jinja2 templates better than the built-in Django templating engine. Just a bit cleaner and less bloat since I don’t need the whole Django ORM.

EDIT: As it turns out, this was a beast to do, so it’s getting shelved and I will revert to a virtualenv that I have on another machine until I can sort this out. *grumble grumble*

UPDATE (2011 AUG 07): I finally got this site ported over to the new Hyde. Some functionality has been removed from the new hyde, so I had to jump through plenty of hoops to get it to work. Most everything is back as it was. I had some new functionality like post tagging and categories working, but it broke other things, so I’ll have to revisit that.