add one liners as overview to index

directcontent/index

@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@
         The programs have very different target groups. For example: while Laborejo itself is made for 
         advanced composers with classical background Patroneo is made specificially for beginners who 
         only know the very basics about music. 
-    </p>    
+    </p>
+
+<p><h2 class="content-subhead">Overview</h2></p>
+<ul> <!-- List of one liners from their config.py -->PYREPLACE_ONELINERS
+</ul>
+
 
 <p><h2 class="content-subhead">Help and Support</h2></p>
     <p>Every program has a comprehensive user manual in multiple languages.</p>

generate.bash

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ cd temp
 #Instead of doing one project fully at a time, creating one giant nested loop.
 #Administration first, the processing!
 PROJECTS=(laborejo patroneo vico fluajho argodejo) #The order here is the order on the page. Each of these gets its own entry.
+PROJECTS_AS_STRING=$( IFS=$' '; echo "${PROJECTS[*]}" )
+
 
 #Gather and update data
 for PROJECT in ${PROJECTS[*]} template
@@ -86,8 +88,10 @@ do
     TITLE=$(echo "$EACH" | sed 's/[^ ]\+/\L\u&/g')
     echo "<li class='pure-menu-item'><a class='pure-menu-link' href='/$EACH/'>$TITLE</a></li>" >> "temp/index_menu" #automatic newline
 done
+
 #Home-Content
-cat "modules/10head" "temp/index_menu" "modules/20aftermenu" "directcontent/index" "modules/90foot" > "out/index.html"
+./index2dataindex.py $PROJECTS_AS_STRING > temp/index
+cat "modules/10head" "temp/index_menu" "modules/20aftermenu" "temp/index" "modules/90foot" > "out/index.html"
 
 #Check if we have an HTML dir, then deploy
 cd "$ROOTPATH" #reset for next step

index2dataindex.py

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+This file is called by generate.bash and will put out part of our website.
+It pulls the info directly from the projects metada dict. Therefore we need this to be a python
+script.
+
+The projects themselves are oblivious to any html website format and style. We can change the website
+at any time as long as the data structures stay the same.
+
+Output is to stdout, we rely on bash piping in generate.bash to write a file.
+
+We expect a directory "temp" on our level with each project as lowercase name:
+temp/fluajho
+temp/patroneo
+etc.
+
+The image file is a static file. At this point in time manually copied into the static/ dir
+
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+projects = sys.argv[1:]  #exclude our own filename
+assert projects
+
+oneliners = ""
+for project in projects:
+    config = __import__(f"temp.{project}.engine.config", fromlist=["METADATA"])
+    META = config.METADATA
+    assert META["shortName"] == project, (META["shortName"], project)
+    oneliners = oneliners + f"\n<li><a href=\"/{META['shortName']}/\">{META['name']}</a>: {META['tagline']}</li>"
+    
+
+with open("directcontent/index", "r") as f:
+    template = f.read()
+    template = template.replace("PYREPLACE_ONELINERS", oneliners)
+   
+
+print (template) #stdout. our job is done
+