I'm confised DrukenMonkey... the boltwire extension page says the db
plugin is only experimental and not properly working. Has this been
resolved and just not updated on boltwire.com?


On Dec 30, 4:18 pm, DrunkenMonk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Deploying a flat-file wiki is much simpler. The self contained
> structure is something of a blessing on the multi-purpose servers I
> use Boltwire on, where the file system and databases are otherwise
> quite easily cluttered.
>
> Since Boltwire has a perfectly usable mysql plugin if one has database-
> friendly information to store, I really don't see any problems with
> the setup. Bearing in mind, of course, that exceptionally large sites
> may slow down with a flat-file backend. Most wikis, however, are
> simply not that large.
>
> On Dec 30, 5:48 pm, Erlend Sogge Heggen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So I searched around a bit more and realized that 'flat files' appears
> > to be the term I'm looking for for 'db-free' systems. I found a couple
> > half-decent debates and comparisons on the topic, but none of them put
> > the argument in the context of online wikis, which is what I hope to
> > see in stronger light here.
>
> >http://www.databasedev.co.uk/flatfile-vs-rdbms.htmlhttp://www.pmwiki.......
>
> > What have you got? ;)
>
> > On Dec 30, 5:26 pm, Erlend Sogge Heggen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I would like to raise awareness to the fact that BoltWire is a
> > > database-free system. Developers I've talked to about BoltWire usually
> > > considers it a downside. Frankly, it's one of the reasons my project
> > > is moving away from DokuWiki as well, because it is not quite as
> > > manageable.
>
> > > Once upon a time it was the simpler install, but these days even most
> > > free hosts come with free sql access.
>
> > > What can be said in defense of a db-free system?
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