update the status here, this actually works fairly well

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@@ -4,3 +4,17 @@ pile up. I will try to get to these. I'm particularly interested in
 your use of yaml+fields. Encourage you to go ahead with any others you
 have not submitted here, like pmap. (Unless it makes more sense to submit
 that as a patch to the existing map plugin.) --[[Joey]] 
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+> Thanks.  I would have put more up, but I didn't want to until they were properly documented, and other things have taken a higher priority.
+
+> I think pmap is probably better as a separate plugin, because it has additional dependencies (HTML::LinkList) which people might not want to have to install.
+
+>> One approach commonly used in ikiwiki is to make such optional features
+>> be enabled by a switch somewhere, and 'eval q{use Foo}` so the module
+>> does not have to be loaded unless the feature is used. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Unfortunately, HTML::LinkList isn't an optional feature for pmap; that's what it uses to create the HTML for the map. --[[KathrynAndersen]]
+
+> The "includepage" plugin I'm not sure whether it is worth releasing or not; it's basically a cut-down version of "inline", because the inline plugin is so complicated and has so many options, I felt more at ease to have something simpler.
+
+> --[[KathrynAndersen]]