I don’t know if you will ever see this but if you do I’m curious as to what you think the strengths of typo are (or will be) compared to mephisto? Typo is certainly more mature and has a bigger user base which is more than enough reason to keep it going but frankly I gave up on both before I was really clear about the relative advantages.

Liquid templates seemed pretty appealing when I looked at Mephisto especially as they didn’t use eval to execute (rhtml templates still do right?). However, the documentation is so non-existent I couldn’t even figure out if they let you define liquid templates in terms of liquid templates, e.g., the way you can define macros in latex. That is what my ideal blogging system would allow as well as filters and hooks and other addon paths.

I didn’t like the typo codebase

I maintain typo, and I don’t like the codebase so you’re not alone. The trunk’s getting much nicer though