⚓ Newcomen • Features

Newcomen, with the plugins included in the distribution, offers the following features (among others):

Support for blog and non-blog websites
Arbitrary categorization (by categories, tags, whatever you like…)
Support for Atom feeds
Article excerpts to be included on index pages or feeds
Integrated site menus, defined in the configuration and/or article sources
Flexible configuration and customization of all aspects of the generated website
MultiMarkdown (or raw HTML) as article source format1
Arbitrary meta data for every article
Relative links (no server required to browse the generated pages)
Template Toolkit templates2
Written in Perl 5 using the Moose framework
Easy to extend with plugins
Extensive API documentation

However, there are some drawbacks, compared to some of the other existing static website generators:

At the moment, Newcomen is pretty slow (improving the performance is on top of the to-do list)
Probably a bit harder to configure than some of the alternatives
There is not much documentation for end users yet
No integrated HTTP server (not really required if you use relative links)
No command to create a new project from some template project (you really should be able to copy some files by yourself)
Always regenerates the complete project (may take some time for huge projects)
Some knowledge of Perl may be an advantage (it is the format of the configuration file)

New features will be added in the future, based on user feedback (and my own needs). Remember that you can always write your own plugins if required.