[Mailman-Developers] Referencing internal list names in TOC templates

[Lindsay Haisley]

I mentioned this before, about a year and a half ago, but I don't know
if it ever got any notice, since it's not in the 2.1.9 code.  Please
excuse me if this is already in the pipeline and scheduled for a future
version.  I just came on it again after a Gentoo Mailman upgrade which
made me rebuild everything.

If one is modifying Mailman TOC templates, as is necessary, for
instance, when implementing the Namazu search engine or working with PHP
code in templates, it can be extremely useful, and sometimes quite
necessary to know the "internal" name of a list.  This is easily done by
adding one line to HyperArch.py:

--- HyperArch.py.orig   2006-10-16 20:25:22.000000000 -0500
+++ HyperArch.py        2006-10-16 20:28:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@
         listname = mlist.internal_name()
         mbox = os.path.join(mlist.archive_dir()+'.mbox', listname+'.mbox')
         d = {"listname": mlist.real_name,
+             "internal": mlist.internal_name(),
              "listinfo": mlist.GetScriptURL('listinfo', absolute=1),
              "fullarch": '../%s.mbox/%s.mbox' % (listname, listname),
              "size": sizeof(mbox, mlist.preferred_language),

This allows one to use "%(internal)s" as a replacement token in template
code.

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