Tinkerer 1.4 Released
What’s New
- New --template flag that allows using a custom RST template for a given post or page
- New rss_max_items config option to limit the number of RSS items to be placed in the feed
- Tinkerer now uses Font Awesome (also see deprecation warning below)
- Generated HTML now has WAI-ARIA roles
- Updated Russian localization
- Updated site-search JS script to newer version from Sphinx project
- Other bug fixes and improvements under the hood
Also check out the new Atom Feed extension.
Deprecation Warning
Until the previous version, Tinkerer shipped with Web Symbols font used for RSS feed and search button symbols. With this release, Tinkerer moves to use Font Awesome.
If you are using any other of the Web Symbols glyphs on a modified website (to render, for example, the Twitter logo), you will need to update your HTML/CSS to use the equivalent Font Awesome symbol instead.
Out-of-the-box Tinkerer with no modifications should not be impacted by this change.
Upgrade Notes
Tinkerer does some internal HTML processing to patch some tags produced by the Sphinx build. With this release, Tinkerer moved to use PyQuery to do this which improves robustness. With this move, Tinkerer now has a dependency on LXML library which has to be built from source. If you encounter any issues during upgrade regarding LXML:
On Windows
There is a binary distribution of LXML maintained by Christoph Gohlke. You can download it from here.
Download, install, then re-run Tinkerer upgrade.
On Linux
If LXML bulid or link fails, make sure you have the following packages: python-dev, libxml2-dev, libxslt-dev and zlib1g-dev. Get them with apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev zlib1g-dev or equivalent.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the contributors for all the geat work!
