Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**.
> However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-)
The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated.
The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two
separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`.
Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`.
Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`.
Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`.
The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social**
to process the new top level `social.html` page.
Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13"
to "2.0.1 2025-07-25".
Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item
as added.
Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general
copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025"
due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**.
Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date
range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025".
Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding.
Ran `make update` to perform the above.
Adjusted `bin/md2html.cfg` to allow for the creation of year level
archive of the rules and guidelines that were in effect when the given
year's content opened for submissions.
We improved `bin/gen-year-index.sh` so that if there exists
a `YYYY/rules.md` rules archive, then `YYYY/rules.html`
will be created.
We improved `bin/gen-year-index.sh` so that if there exists
a `YYYY/guidelines.md` rules archive, then `YYYY/guidelines.html`
will be created.
Changed `bin/gen-year-index.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13"
to "2.1.0 2025-07-05".
Adjusted `next/rules.md` and `next/guidelines.md` so that when they are
copied as archived copies of rules and guidelines under a YYYY directory,
the internal links do not break. There are **NO** changes to the readable
contents of the rules and guidelines, only some changes to a few internal links.
Updated `1992/buzzard.2/index.html, `1993/rince/index.html`, and
`2012/omoikane/index.html that were modified by recent commits.
Rebuild sitemap due to the changes above.
Ran `make www` to test and perform the above.
By mistake in a few previous commits, some useful explanatory
and example comments were removed.
Add comments that will be useful for IOCCC29 and beyond.
Remove `${GINDENT}` and add `${RMDIR}` Makefile variables.
We update `next/Makefile.example` as per needs of IOCCC
final judging rounds.
Improved a few "XXX" comments.
Add `-pedantic` to `${CWARN}` by default with a comment
suggesting that is is OK to remove that compiler flag.
Added processing of "%%REPO_TOP_URL%%" tokens to `bin/subst.default.sh`.
Updated `find-missing-links.sh` to not falsely report missing links
when a "%%REPO_TOP_URL%%" token is used.
Changed `bin/subst.default.sh` VERSION from "1.3.2 2024-08-05"
to "1.4.0 2025-04-16".
Changed `bin/find-missing-links.sh` VERSION from "1.1.1 2024-04-28"
to "1.2.0 2025-04-16".
Due to a `pandoc(1)` bug fix, `2011/fredriksson/index.html` and
`2012/kang/index.html` were modified. The bug fix removed extraneous
whitespace that was previously introduced into HTML under certain
situations. These 2 changes do **NOT** impact the way web browsers
render these pages, however.
Updated sitemap.
Updated tarballs based on entry mods since 2025 March 4
(commit 233e5e90a5 just prior
to the IOCCC28 open).
Tested the above via `make update` on macOS.
Add news of the mkiocccentry toolkit version 2.4.4 2025-03-15.
Note that C is the official locale of the IOCCC in the IOCCC guidelines
version 28.47 2025-03-15.
New FAQ on what the minimum versions are (this should be updated every
contest or updated to refer to the result of the issue I opened at the
other repo - post IOCCC28) for each tool.
Added details about the new (soon to be released) version of the tools
that now search under $PATH.
This commit updated the FAQ, the guidelines and the quick start guide.
As a reminder you do NOT need to use the upcoming release of the tools
and not doing so will not invalidate any of your submissions as it is
based on a minimum version, not an exact version.
The new options to mkiocccentry are -x to delete the submission
directory if if it already exists and the -u uuidfile and -U uuidstr
options.
NOTE: it is NOT required to update the tools for this IOCCC and you do
NOT have to read the updated guidelines to follow the guidelines for
this IOCCC.
Renamed some FAQs (typos and/or other things).
Fix a number of typos in various files (including markdown format
errors).
Rules and guidelines should be relatively good although as there is a
lot to get through and not much time left maybe I missed something (I
also kind of cheated doing the final checks with the guidelines rather
than going through them all again).
The next/try.sh and next/try.alt.sh scripts have had updates as well and
the next/Makefile.example was modified too.
The index.html page now has an anchor for goals of the contest so that
the goals in the rules could simply link to it in index.html.
Although some text had to be added (and some corrected) a reasonable
amount of text was also removed as it was elsewhere or was extraneous in
some way.
The file next/remarks.example.md has been renamed next/remarks.md.
From this file a new html file, next/remarks.html, is generated. The
first part of the instructions say to download the markdown file and
copy it to your submission's directory.
The rest is mostly the same but this way one can look at the website and
also be aware of the file (and it'll be linked to in the rules and/or
guidelines as well).
This required updating bin/gen-top-html.sh an bin/md2html.cfg and the
Makefile was updated too (with a typo fix also).
Without the @ before the comments (which are informative and to be
removed by contestants) it shows the comments when running 'make'. Even
worse is without doing $${CHMOD} it would not evaluate to anything so it
looked bizarre.
Thus the @ was added to the comments like the rest of the file (comments
in rules).
The three important files, next/{register,submit,pw-change}.{md,html}
no longer have images in them (besides the logo at the top of the image
which has nothing to do with registering, submitting or changing
passwords); instead the text in the images are actual text (in some
cases, just the relevant parts and in others all or almost all).
The png/register.* and png/submit.* images were removed.
Some images are no longer used but they still exist here for the time
being. Text is used instead though based on some discussion text might
have to change.
Adjusted alt text of some images a bit.
A more thorough look at the way these updates look must still be done.
The screenshots are more recent (including some new ones).
The welcome email images have not been updated as some things have to be
answered before that can be done.
The current files were renamed to be shorter as well.
In order simplify the write-up of the actual Rule 17
into a new FAQ 1.8. The somewhat shorted Rule 17 text
now refers to checks performed by tools, encourages
their use, discourages their misuse (overriding limits),
and is easier to read: we think.
Landon Curt Noll