Three points: 1) How much more marketing do we get if we can say "C::A wiki, built on C::A technology"? Or, rather, won't people ask "Why isn't this built on C::A if it's such a good product?" I know that was an initial stumbling block for me ... 2) Reinventing the wheel is -good- if the current wheels aren't all that round 3) It provides an example of best practices simply by reading the code.
That #3 is a big deal for me - I get asked a lot on Perlmonks to provide examples of C::A class hierarchies and I don't have any. Being able to point to the wiki and say "Look not only at the wiki text, but look at its code, too!" would be amazing. There's also another big element here - a wiki has all the important web application portions to it. * state / sessions / cookies * authentication * file uploading * form handling / form validation * dispatching to various modules for printing (PDF::Template, HTML::Template, Template Toolkit, Excel::Template, etc.) We would be able to showcase all these amazing new CAP:: modules, like CAP::Stream and ValidateForm (or whatever it's called) ... that would also kinda solve the CGI::Prototype problem, too. Rob On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:42:41 -0400, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't C::A all about not re-creating the wheel ;) > > > > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:33:24 -0500, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Twiki is really annoying to admin, imho. It doesn't even have > > automated user addition. It could seriously benefit from some work > > done on it. > > > > Actually, why would we use someone else's wiki implementation? Are we > > the webapp capital of the Perl world? Why aren't we building our own > > C::A wiki built on C::A technology?? > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:07:07 -0400, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Aye, I admin a MoinMoin wiki, and i really love it. It's pretty much > > > changed the way our company stores information, in about one week.. > > > and people actually use it. > > > > > > Jeff. > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:53:28 +0000 (UTC), Mark Stosberg > > > > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 2004-12-02, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Try to take this without offense... > > > > > > > > > > how about one with a url that doesn't suck > > > > > > > > We have that, too: > > > > > > > > http://www.cgi-app.org/ > > > > > > > > I registered that myself, and have it redirected to the wiki now. My > > > > intent is to continue to use it for whatever the primary > > > > CGI::Application website is. > > > > > > > > > and actually comes up in google results. ? > > > > > > > > This could be solved by more people linking to the above URL. (Go go > > > > gadget bloggers!). > > > > > > > > My current related gripe is that I'm not a big fan of the > > > > design/interface of the current CGI::App wiki. > > > > > > > > Currently my favorite wiki is MoinMoin, which is written > > > > in Python. An example is here: > > > > http://www.scannedinavian.org/DarcsWiki > > > > > > > > Twiki is a sensible choice, though, in that is mature, has a reasonable > > > > feature set, and is written in Perl. > > > > > > > > I like the clean design of Kwiki, although my impression is that it is a > > > > still a bit under-featured. > > > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://mark.stosberg.com/ > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jeff MacDonald > > > http://www.halifaxbudolife.ca > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > Jeff MacDonald > http://www.halifaxbudolife.ca > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
