Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Alex
"By having a chance to create something from scratch, it can be built to be lean and spare, with all that is required and nothing that isn't." Speaking of that, I have some code here that implements basic bulletin board functionality. It was only an experiment to test how DBIC::Schema works. I wil

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Fuller
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Miller wrote: > And "using the best tool for the job" is a common and widespread belief that's > difficult to disagree with, My point is that "best" can be defined different ways. David enumerated the problems he was trying to solve. Those might be best impr

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Joshua Miller
I'm usually a lurker, but thought this was an interesting topic in a more ways than just "let's make the website look nice". So anyway... On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Mark Fuller wrote: > Even in the most contradictory case of a forum (or wiki) site using a > different forum (or wiki), I think

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Fuller
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Lyle wrote: > Look at www.yabbforum.com, it's a Perl forum script, but it's site is in > php. I've contacted them about this before, to be told I wasn't the > first to bring it up. I agree with you guys. But, first it was loathing a Perl site that uses PHP. Then it

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread P Kishor
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Lyle wrote: > Mark Fuller wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul Miller >> wrote: >> >>>  If the website for it doesn't have some >>> kind of demo and in fact uses mostly PHP code, what good is the lib. >>> >> >> I understand your point and it has some val

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Lyle
Mark Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul Miller > wrote: > >> If the website for it doesn't have some >> kind of demo and in fact uses mostly PHP code, what good is the lib. >> > > I understand your point and it has some validity. But, that's not what > Lyle said, and I

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Fuller
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul Miller wrote: >  If the website for it doesn't have some > kind of demo and in fact uses mostly PHP code, what good is the lib. I understand your point and it has some validity. But, that's not what Lyle said, and I was addressing. He said he "loathes Perl sit

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Miller
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Mark Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Lyle wrote: >> >> I personally loathe Perl sites that use PHP. > > I used to feel guilty about what others would think if they knew I > edited Perl with a non-Perl editor. I don't think the analogy is quite righ

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Fuller
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Lyle wrote: > > I personally loathe Perl sites that use PHP. I used to feel guilty about what others would think if they knew I edited Perl with a non-Perl editor. I got over it. The result was better than forever talking about how someone should write an editor i

Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Fuller
> Cees is completely right. Many of us are very busy people and wouldn't > have time to monitor a forum. It's been mentioned a couple times already that most forum software has RSS syndication and email notification. The original topic was that David wanted more participation in the wiki, particu