On 2007-01-25 Mark Trumpold is rumoured to have said: > I have to agree. I started using pmwiki in Sept. of last yr and I am > still > tweaking it. It would be nice to have a so called 'prebundled' > pmwiki. It > would have saved me loads of time. > > I have tried various recipes they work, they don't so well, I need to > remove > the recipes try another or contact the author and so it goes on.
Although it might be nice to have several prebundled installs, trying to choose the feature set that makes sense is not easy. PM seems to have a knack for keeping just the right things in the core - enough to get you started, and a zillion hooks to let you expand it as you wish. Recipe authors usually have a specific problem they want to solve, and they are kind enough to share the results with us. But trying to assemble a set of recipes into a bundle is a mug's game (translation for non-native English speakers: a game for gullible or stupid people, a game you can't win) for two reasons: 1) very few people will agree on the appropriate contents 2) trying to keep it up to date will be even more difficult than keeping single recipes up to date - probably proportional to the square of the numer of recipes included I don't want to discourage "bundles" that are a list of recipes that worked together at one time, but I think it will be frustrating to try and assemble a "prebundled" download. I run a total of 5 wikis in a farm right now (down from 7), and every one of them is different in terms of recipes. They do all share the core code. Something that I think would be even more useful than bundles would be comparison pages that allow admins to quickly uinderstand the strengths and weaknesses of various recipes that perform more-or-less the same function. This might have helped Mark to avoid his trial and error recipe testing. An easy starting point "bundles" would be to add to the existing page http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ListOfBundles a few lines that describe which recipes you have installed on your wiki(s) and why you chose them over any possible alternatives. If everybody ends up posting the same list, then I guess I will have to eat crow, but I suspect that every list will be different. Finding the common recipes might point the way to items that should be included in the core. -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
