Fendo

= Fendo :author: Marcos Cruz (programandala.net) :revdate: 2024-09-03

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== Description

Fendo is a static website generator written in http://forth-standard.org[Forth] with http://gnu.org/software/gforth[Gforth].

Some features:

• Every source page is an independent Forth program that builds its HTML target.
• Actual Forth code can be embedded in source pages and design templates.
• Support for several markups (native, Asciidoctor, Markdown, HTML).
• Support for multilingual sites.
• Many addons for specific needs.
• Redirections.
• Nestable page shortcuts.
• Fully customizable.

Links:

• http://programandala.net/en.program.fendo.html[Fendo home page]
• https://hg.sr.ht/~programandala_net/fendo[Fendo repository in SourceHut]
• http://github.com/programandala-net/fendo[Fendo repository in GitHub]

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== Current status

Fendo is very stable and is regulary improved, after the requirements of the author's websites it already powers (three websites have been converted to Fendo from previous engines and two have been created directly with it).

The source code is well documented, but specific usage documentation is still missing. A full manual with a complete glossary will be built automatically from the sources.

The current version under development is 0.6.0, which will be considered the first public version (releases A-05 and older are internal, not usable).

== The name

Fendo stands for "Forth Engine for Net DOcuments". Also, http://vortaro.net/#fendo["fendo"] is the Esperanto word for "slot", in the sense "a narrow depression, perforation, or aperture".

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== History of the code and the repository

• 2012: The development of Fendo started in order to replace two previous website generators written by the author (one of them written in Forth, the other one in PHP) with a new one combining the best features of both of them.

• 2017-02-08: A local Git repository was created from all of the development backups, in order to resume the development and prepare the first public release.

• 2020-03-28: The Git repository was uploaded to https://github.com/programandala-net/fendo[GitHub].

• 2020-11-29: The Git repository was converted to https://fossil-scm.org[Fossil], keeping GitHub as an automatic read-only mirror.

• 2023-04-01: The Fossil repository was converted to https://mercurial-scm.org[Mercurial], enabling bidirectional communication with GitHub.

• 2024-09-02: The Mercurial repository was uploaded to https://hg.sr.ht/~programandala_net/fendo[SourceHut], keeping GitHub as a mirror.

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