On 03/11/2013 22:54, Tamara Temple wrote:
I’d like to see the core improving, and it does. /.../ Monolithism is rather awful to deal with on many systems. What I would love to see, though, is a package management system that makes installing and updating recipes and skins easier, and aids development of local and shared recipes and skins. This is rather ambitious, I know.
I agree. I like how pmwiki is customisable and hackable. It also seems very robust: some old cookbooks are still working, so we can understand pmwiki has a clean base and its modularism is working well.
A skin and management system would be cool. I think about dokuwiki which handles this well. Yet, after having used both pmwiki and dokuwiki, I still prefer pmwiki, I think it's because dokuwiki still looks too much like a classic wiki (think wikipedia) with widgets, options and such, even with some alternative skins.
On the other hand, there is something I like very much on dokuwiki, and find annoying on pmwiki: it's the way data are stored. I regret all history and metadata are kept in the same files in pmwiki, I also guess it might impact a bit the performance if it loads the whole data when reading the content of the files, but I may be wrong on this point.
I also regret line breaks and such are mangled in pmwiki, which means you can't easily edit your data from outside a web browser, for example I synchronize text files between a website and my android device, so I can edit my pages from a simple text editor (I'm using Lionwiki for this purpose, it's an other light wiki engine).
There is a receipe for this for pmwiki: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageTopStore but it doesn't work very well and I think it should be native in pmwiki and well supported.
Dokuwiki also support out of the box cached data. I haven't tried to achieve the same on pmwiki, but it looks complicated to set up (for example with http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FastCache).
The default skin used on the PmWiki website should also be improved, I think it may prevent newcomers to choose PmWiki (it should at least use responsive web, and nicer colors and fonts)
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