LyXBlogger Changelog

Jack Desert (JackDesert@gmail.com)

Version 0.40 (May 19, 2012)

• src attributes for images are now relative, such that if you move your blog from one domain to another, the images will still show up.

Version 0.39

• Fixed bug where LyXBlogger would crash when a LyX 2.0 file, exported as LyXHTML, was called by LyXBlogger from another directory.

Version 0.38

• Multiple categories per post by entering as 1,2
• Interactively saves each blog profile as you use it
• Each profile can be saved with or without a plain text password
• Ships with eLyXer 1.0.4

Version 0.37

• Fixed a bug from 0.36 where images were not showing up
• Modified text prompts
• Slimmed down the interactive testing module
• Added a slight delay after Copyright information displays

Version 0.36

• Allows updating of previous posts
• Retrieves previous post headers from server
• Option to display all previous post titles if desired post is not in most recent nine
• Clarified userguide as to which machine (client or server) requires which software
• Improved exception handling by looking for specific exceptions in try / except statements
• Adds unit tests for exception handlers
• Changed download link in docs to point to no-redirect site
• Implemented multiple test scenarios in interactive_test.py
• USER DEFINED VARIABLES now takes plain urls, without the ’/xmlrpc.php’ ending

Version 0.35

• Added exception handling for common exceptions.
• Added short, meaningful error messages for when Internet is not available, domain is invalid, username/password mismatch, and called without sufficient args.
• LyXBlogger window displays “LyXBlogger” as its window title.
• Window stays open on Microsoft Windows, even when an exception is thrown.
• On any supported operating system, ENTER closes the LyXBlogger window when done.
• Changed the names of two directories used for testing to use extended Latin characters instead of cyrillic characters. This fixed a bug where one could not unzip on a Windows filesystem.
• Coalesce.py is cleaner, and can handle general imports like “from socket import gaierror”.
• Added unit testing for coalesce.py.

Version 0.34

• Converted documentation model to include LyX masters in docs/raw and html exports in docs.
• Put everything from original wiki page into documentation.
• Now includes a user guide, development guide.
• Changed images used in examples to public domain images.
• LyXBlogger now looks for input file content, rather than input file extension, to determine which converter was used to produce it.
• Informs user of whichever supported format user is not using.
• Added unit tests to file-type-checking code.
• Added instructions in development guide on how to call seed.py as a script if desired.
• Changed directory structure of example docs
• Changed md5sums for basic_blog.html annd basic_blog.xhtml
• Added interact.py to be able to test in interactive mode.
• Unit tests now run on Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 consecutively.
• Changed distribution model so that all unit tests must pass before executable module is constructed.
• Renamed internal variables related to relative directory locations so code is more understandable.
• Moved hosting to www.nongnu.org/lyxblogger
• Moved functional code inside main() and only call main if __name__ == ’__main__’ This makes sure that you can run __import__(’lyxblogger’) without lib/configure.py crashing
• Updated instructions on how to configure LyX 2.0 to use eLyXer as its default LyX -> xhtml converter

Version 0.33b (Beta release only — non production)

• Changed name from LyxBlogger to LyXBlogger
• Moved wiki page to http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyXBlogger
• Module filename changed to lyxblogger.py
• Uses coalesce.py to create python file from several smaller modules
• Includes some unit testing
• Release is now in compressed format
• License header added to all files make file included
• Includes two setup options. Default includes elyxer and wordpresslib
• Organization of source code structure
• Added license headers on all text files

Version 0.33a (Alpha release only — non production)

• Added support for Microsoft Windows.
• Now works on at least three platforms: GNU/Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
• More specifically: tested on Ubuntu 9.10, OSX, and Vista 32-bit.
• Provides different instructions for closing the windows based on os detection.
• In this version, LyXBlogger installs as a python module instead of as an executable.
• Name of python module in this version was not lyxblogger, but subsequent versions revert to lyxblogger.
• Changed license to GNU General Public License version 3.

Version 0.32

• MODELS: models will remain the same as those shown for 0.31 unless otherwise noted.
• Removes "Converted document" string used by eLyXer for blogs with no other title.
• Added error checking to make sure title isn’t inadvertently posted twice.
• Prompts user whether to use default credentials or enter new ones.
• Test site moved to blogtest.letseatalready.com.
• Converted print() statements to sys.stdout.write instead of print() in order to facilitate an automated test suite.
• Changed documentation model to include README.html, which is a snapshot in time of the LyXBlogger wiki page.

Version 0.31

• MODELS:
• LyX --> LyXHTML --> filters --> XML-RPC
• LyX --> eLyXer --> filters --> XML-RPC
• Added support for eLyXer created documents.
• Automatically detects input format based on file type (.xhtml = LyXHTML, .html = eLyXer)
• Improved documentation for implementing as a converter.
• Includes a username and password to do test posting to http://zippermania.wordpress.com

Version 0.30

• MODEL: LyX --> LyXHTML --> filters --> XML-RPC
• First release of LyXBlogger using XML-RPC
• Uses input from LyX 2.0 (internal) LyXHTML format.
• Uploads both text and images to server Allows user to be prompted for credentions or to save them in file
• Spawns its own xterm window to display error messages
• Retrieves category list from server and allows selection of one category.
• Retains option for CUT_FLAG (ignores anything belows the CUT_FLAG)
• Removes title from body and uses it as the post title

Version 0.20

• MODEL: LyX --> LyXHTML --> filters --> Xclip
• Same as Version 0.15 except: Uses LyX 2.0 (internal) LyXHTML format

Version 0.15

• MODEL: LyX --> eLyXer --> filters --> Xclip
• Mostly the same as 0.05 except that eLyXer is being used for html
• CUT_FLAG is implemented (ignores anything below the CUT_FLAG)
• Removes arrows from eLyXer footnote references.

Version 0.05

• MODEL: LyX --> TtH --> filters --> Xclip
• Original prototype of LyXBlogger which used Xclip.
• Takes the output from TtH, stripped unneeded content, and copied the resulting html code to the clipboard using Xclip.
• This allowed a user to easily paste code into a browser-based blog composition window.