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What's the difference in using nanoc to do that?
I am the creator of Stasis. Compare the sheer length of docs for nanoc ( http://nanoc.stoneship.org/docs ) to those of Stasis ( http://stasis.me ), and keep in mind that Stasis can do anything that Nanoc does.
- Items can contain arbitrary metadata in nanoc
- You can trivially build multiple representations of a single item in nanoc (e.g. a PDF/txt/html representation of a single markdown file)
- Dependency tracking in nanoc is fully automatic (no need to specify priorities)
- Nanoc is easily extensible using custom filters, custom deployers, custom helpers and more
Statis and nanoc have a different audience. To me, Stasis seems to be aimed at simpler, smaller sites, while nanoc is aimed at much more featureful sites. It is a good thing to have a lot of documentation (nanoc is frequently cited as a good example of how documentation should be handled).