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[Monotone-devel] Re: distributed wiki?
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Hendrik Boom |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: distributed wiki? |
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Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:10:17 -0500 |
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Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) |
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:35:00 -0600, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
> Justin Patrin wrote:
>> On 2/8/07, Hendrik Boom <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Wikis usually use a revision-control system to store their
>>> repositories. Are there any known wikis that use a distributed
>>> revision-control system? If not, would it be worthwhile investigating
>>> basing one on monotone?
>>>
>>> And ... what kind of user interface, comprehensible by the rank novice,
>>> would explain to him what's going on when there are multiple heads in a
>>> page?
>>>
>>>
>> Someone mentioned ikiwiki on the list a while ago and it was mentioned
>> again during the summit. Someone was working on support for it but noone
>> seems to know what came of that. In any case, ikiwiki seems like the way
>> to got for such a thing.
>>
Right. Found it in a thread startine 2006 oct 8. Has there been any
progress on this front?
>>
> My only problem with ikiwiki is that it is written in perl. I wrote a
> wiki parser for my website in C++ using boost::spirit and it supports most
> of moin moin's syntax.
My two immediate thoughts on thos were:
(1) Oh good. SOmeone's started the ball rolling.
(2) Too bad. I'd wanted to try out a new programming language on a real
problem like this.
Seriously -- has anyone heard of progress on this front?
-- hendrik