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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• blogc
• blogc-git-receiver
• blogc-make
• blogc-runserver

Projektgeschichte

Rafael G. Martins started blogc as an experiment in a simple blog compiler with its own template engine and markup language. The project deliberately avoided CMS-style global state: the core blogc command compiles source files and templates, while helper programs such as blogc-make, blogc-git-receiver, and blogc-runserver cover common publishing workflows.

The public release line began with 0.1 beta tags in 2015 and continued through a series of 0.x releases. Later releases added build-tool conveniences, pagination and listing improvements, table-of-contents generation, signed release artifacts, and a Debian/Ubuntu repository announced with 0.20.1.

Adoptionsgeschichte

blogc's adoption has been strongest in Unix package-manager and source-based distribution circles rather than in mainstream JavaScript static-site tooling. Its own site lists release tarballs plus package routes for Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL/CentOS COPR, Termux, openSUSE, and Gentoo, and the input metadata also records Homebrew, Fedora, Nix, and openSUSE package names.

The project ships an example blog repository and documents using blogc with make or blogc-make, which made it attractive to users who wanted a static site generator with C portability and predictable command-line behavior.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage passes source files and templates to blogc to emit HTML or feed resources, or uses blogc-make with a blogcfile to define site-wide variables, content directories, templates, posts, tags, and generated outputs. The compiler can be embedded in ordinary make rules because each invocation has no shared state.

The package installs several executables: blogc for compilation, blogc-make for project builds, blogc-runserver for local serving, and blogc-git-receiver for git-push publishing workflows.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

blogc is package-nerd catnip because it is a C static-site generator that thinks like a compiler: libc at runtime, POSIX portability as a stated goal, man pages for interfaces, and build integration through make instead of a large language runtime.

It sits in the small but interesting lineage of minimal static-site tools where the packaging story matters: release tarballs, distro repositories, man pages, and reproducible command-line invocations are as central as themes or plugins.

Zeitleiste

• 2015: First 0.1 beta tags appear in the official Git repository.
• 2015: The blogc site copyright and early release materials identify Rafael G. Martins as the author.
• 2019: Version 0.18.0 added blogc-make pagination_tags support and signed release artifacts.
• 2020: Version 0.20.0 added table-of-contents generation for source files.
• 2021: Version 0.20.1 announced a Debian/Ubuntu repository and minor fixes.

Related projects

• blogc-example is the official starter repository for new sites.
• blogc-make is the bundled build tool that turns blogc into a more complete blog-building workflow while keeping the compiler separate.
• The project overlaps conceptually with static-site generators and make-based publishing systems, but its own docs emphasize that it is a compiler, not a blogging engine.

Quellen

• https://blogc.rgm.io/
• https://blogc.rgm.io/man/blogc.1.html
• https://blogc.rgm.io/man/blogcfile.5.html
• https://blogc.rgm.io/news/
• https://github.com/blogc/blogc
• source_facts.package-manager