Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> > I ended up making a quick awk script to fix the pages for the new > > syntax > > I'm not a developer so I can't help you with the "legacy" switch but > could you post your awk script. Please DON'T post it to the list. It will only confuse people. And I can assure you that a AWK script is unl

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Greg Noel
Let me give you my take on this. On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Thomas Waldmann wrote: > We provide documentation and expect that people read them ... docs/ > CHANGES contains docs about every noteworthy change we do, ... Aye, there's the rub. Buried in the blizzard of literally a thousand tha

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Rick Vanderveer
Hey Peirre, Well, you have to understand that part of upgrading the code is doing away with the flawed design decisions that had become a royal headache to work around. For example, the code that handled spaces in links/URL's was a nightmare, and was seriously hampering development. At some point

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Tim Bird
Pierre Coupard wrote: > Hey, thanks everybody for your replies. Hi Pierre, Are you the Pierre Coupard who worked at Lineo? If so, how's it going?? I was going to answer your upgrade questions, but other people beat me to it. I did an upgrade from 1.5.1 to 1.6.3 earlier this year and it was a f

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Pierre Coupard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, thanks everybody for your replies. I apologize if the tone of my > message sounded nasty or ungrateful, I must admit I had a bout of > despair when I wrote it. > > To address the points you have made: I had backed up

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Pierre Coupard
Hey, thanks everybody for your replies. I apologize if the tone of my message sounded nasty or ungrateful, I must admit I had a bout of despair when I wrote it. To address the points you have made: I had backed up the data before trying the upgrade, so I wasn't in any danger of permanently losi

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Rick Vanderveer
Pierre, In addition to everything Thomas and Reimer said, I'd like to add that I personally keep up with the current releases, and try to document the major changes and upgrade steps which many find useful. It's also linked directly from the MoinMoinDownload page, so it's easy to find. :-) http

Re: [Moin-user] Missing MyPages Action

2008-12-10 Thread jose
Thanks Reimar. I commented out the MyPages exclusion line in 'multiconfig.py' and added "from MoinMoin.security.autoadmin import SecurityPolicy" to 'wikiconfig.py' according to 'HelpOnAutoAdmin'. The action is working now. j > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:25:32 +0100 > From: "R.Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Hi Pierre, I am sorry that you had a bad upgrading experience, but please note: We provide documentation and expect that people read them (especially, but not limited to, when doing major upgrades). docs/CHANGES contains docs about every noteworthy change we do, including some pointers to some o

Re: [Moin-user] Why oh why!

2008-12-10 Thread R.Bauer
Pierre Coupard schrieb: > Hello everybody, > > So, I've used MoinMoin for years. I've advocated it at all my > workplaces, and each time, my boss and other employees ended up finding > it great and very useful. > > So that's what I did at my new work last year. I installed MoinMoin > 1.5.somethin

Re: [Moin-user] Missing MyPages Action

2008-12-10 Thread R.Bauer
jose schrieb: > Hi, I run moinmoin 1.8.0 and I don't have the MyPages action in the "More > Actions:" menu. In case I use <> in the text, it just > prints MyPages. I searched moinmoin docs and googled without finding any > relevant documentation about MyPages action. Any suggestions how to get > My