discuss: Linux documentation wiki
Subject:
Re: Linux documentation wiki
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jan 2002 19:40:28 -0000
Message-Id: <20020112202918.GC31299@lupercalia.net>
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Randy Kramer wrote:
> --s+ wrote:
> > OK, David - you volunteer to make this conversion system, right?
> > Jonathan suggested http://moin.sourceforge.net/ as wiki system,
> > is it good choice for you?
>
> Just thought I'd add my $.02. When I was trying to choose a wiki for my
> own use and for use on Wikilearn, I "reviewed" several wikis.
Here's a question for you guys. Do we really want and need a Wiki,
with all that functionality? Or just the ability to do a quick edit
online? I mean we could do a really, really quick update to the
database to allow editing documents that are in it. I could have it up
and running in an hour. Probably more like 10 minutes really. It's
rock stupid to do.
I would just have a "text" field in the db that holds the contents,
and display it in a textbox. Simple.
I've started hacking on txt2db (the conversion program), and it is
going swimmingly. I'm parsing sects. No other structures yet, but hey
it's only been an hour or two. :-)
It's even been fun, and I am learning more Perl. I keep "Programming
Perl" right beside me and use it a LOT! (Ferg, I used db2omf as a
template, didn't think you'd mind.)
I'll put it in cvs later today.
--
David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If
so, it's going quite well I must admit.
--Bill Gates
