Votive

File processor

• Powers Voot
• Bundles Vowel

Roadmap

Priorities

• [x] Improve buffer handling
• [x] Flesh out get-many targets logic
• [x] Add get-url logic

More

• [x] Rename jobs and paths
• [x] Folders (see spec below)
• [x] File deletion handling

Project: Folders

Add a folders table so folders are first-class entities, like targets. Merge settings into metadata by adding a type column (target | folder) — a setting is just metadata scoped to a folder instead of a target.

dependencies gets its own type column: target | folder | folder_recursive. A dependency can point at a specific target (as today), at a folder (invalidated by direct children only), or at a folder recursively (invalidated by anything in that folder or its subfolders). No filters for now — depending on a folder means depending on everything in its scope.

This replaces today's markDescendentsStale("%") fallback in source.create, which invalidates every target in the site whenever a new file is added, because there's currently no way to express "this page list depends on this folder" — only edges between two already-existing targets.

Project: Jobs

Jobs was originally a generic concept, but after working it's clear that there are two main categories of jobs: async writes and data fetching. We can probably handle async writes with inbuilt logic. So, instead of a "job", we should have "read uri"? That way we can cache all the uris.