Unify recipe for regular and automated indices

Also don't run pandoc in a pipeline within a Makefile recipe: pipefail
is not set, so generate-index.py failures will not be bubbled up.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/repo/www/generate-index.py b/repo/www/generate-index.py
index d4b087c..3f777b9 100755
--- a/repo/www/generate-index.py
+++ b/repo/www/generate-index.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
 from os import path
+from subprocess import run
 
 from git import Repo
 
@@ -17,6 +18,9 @@ def parse_arguments():
     parser.add_argument(
         'target', help='Folder to generate an index for.'
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'output', help='Path to the output file.'
+    )
     return parser.parse_args()
 
 
@@ -48,6 +52,11 @@ def generate_index_page(title, directories, files, intro_file):
 {file_list}
 '''
 
+def convert_page(content, output):
+    run(
+        ('pandoc', '-s', '-o', output), input=content, check=True, text=True
+    )
+
 
 def main(arguments):
     repo = Repo(search_parent_directories=True)
@@ -73,7 +82,10 @@ def main(arguments):
 
     title = path.basename(target) if target else 'index'
 
-    print(generate_index_page(title, folders, names, intro))
+    convert_page(
+        generate_index_page(title, folders, names, intro),
+        arguments.output
+    )
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':