2.0.0: Back to the roots

[strawmelonjuice]

v2.0.0 is a MAJOR overhaul of Cynthia Mini, where reintroduction of simplicity is once again needed.

The entire application will be streamlined and... all artifacts of being between gleam versions (I found a result.then() today?!?) will be wrinkled out!

Also, with a new slate come new opportunities to slam bugs to smithereens! Expect solved issues.

Removed:

• Dynamic/host mode: seemed to only complicate the application, and in case of Cynthia Mini does not deliver any extra features, just run Nginx, even gives you fancier configs!
• The promise of a plugin system: The plugin loader is not really in scope for Cynthia's Mini edition. (however: Cynthia Full is back in to development and might get more than just a plugin system done!)

Changed:

• Complete code overhaul
• Switch to CynthiaConfig Mini-v4.1 as default config format
• Switch from site.json to site.cbor, ./site.json is still generated if integrations.crawlable_context is set to true. CBOR is easier to send HTML into and doesn't require tricky escape routes that may break the content.

Fixed:

• init command should not ask for initialisation #52 : Init command now doesn't ask for anything, just tells you to use --force to override and otherwise keeps shut! It will however possibly ask for nice starting values later.
• Menu links should not always be ordered alphabetically. #49 : Some links like the index and home page, contact etc., are now being put first
• Some server-side configurable variable conversions missing #32 : By removal of the feature alltogether

New:

• Mastodon can now be used as a comment backend!
• Config versions and a reinit subcommand #31 : Partially, the v4.1 format allows for backwards compatibility to v4, including for post metadata. It does however not yet allow upgrading to new config variants. This is very possible to have now and might still become a thing for v2.0.0

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✨ Finishing touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment
• Commit unit tests in branch 2.0.0

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