Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-06 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:50:38PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > In fact, one of the reasons I want to have a separate temporary > directory is so that we can get rid of the leading dot and > "invisible" files that we have now. :-) > > Thus: > > wiki.d/.flock -> tmp/flock > wik

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-06 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:09:06AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > writeable-private/ > wiki.d/ > temp.d/ > > It makes it very clear what the directory is for, with the > downside of being a really long directory name. wr - no, it's not that long ;) Balu ___

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: pmwiki/ pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) "core"/ scripts/ pmwiki.php This might lead to a problem in computing a value for $FarmD, which really ought to be the directory containing scripts/, cookboo

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 12:07:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's a thought. Would it help if we said that generally speaking > everything not in pub/ is private? The execptions that are also public > would be pmwiki.php and uploads/. Sure, that's pretty much what we do now. The p

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:41:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, The Editor wrote: > > >>>pmwiki/ > >>> pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) > > >>> "core"/ > >>> scripts/ > pmwiki.php > > A bit separate, but I kind of like the id

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: scripts/ farmprivate read-onlycore wikilib.d/ farm[1] read-onlycore local/ field private read-onlylocal cookbook/[2] private read-onlylocal farmconfig.php farmprivate r

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread Tom Lederer
Am 04.02.2007 um 22:41 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, The Editor wrote: > pmwiki/ pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) > "core"/ scripts/ > pmwiki.php > > A bit separate, but I kind of like the idea of letting the f

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:08:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >But the truth is that there's no one dimension that can neatly cover > >everything. > > I reorganized things along two dimensions: private/public v.s. ro/rw. Cool. I've reorganized that version a bit further... scripts/

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:58:05PM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: What about this off-the-wall idea? working.d/ # top-level writable directory wiki.d/ # page file storage temp.d/ # temporary/work files

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: "pmwiki-core"/ pmwiki.php scripts/ wikilib.d/ cookbook/ local/ farmconfig.php pub/ guiedit/ skins/ cache/ "field"/ index.php writable/ wiki.d

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: And as I responded to Tom's message earlier, we still have the situation where web-accessible files are now spread out across multiple directories, instead of being easily centralized in a single pub/ url root. Is it realistic to expect that we c

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, The Editor wrote: pmwiki/ pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) "core"/ scripts/ pmwiki.php A bit separate, but I kind of like the idea of letting the file pmwiki.php in the root simply include the real pmwiki.php (possibly

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:09:00PM -0500, The Editor wrote: > On 2/4/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What we have now is essentially: > > > > "pmwiki-core"/ > > pmwiki.php > > scripts/ > > wikilib.d/ > > cookbook/ > > local/ > > farmcon

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread The Editor
On 2/4/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:39:19AM -0500, The Editor wrote: > > >> >> pmwiki/ > > >> >> pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) > > >> >> "core"/ (or could call the barn =|:)> ) > > >> >> scripts/ > > >> >>

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread Tom Lederer
Am 04.02.2007 um 16:09 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:58:05PM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: >> What about this off-the-wall idea? >> >> working.d/ # top-level writable directory >>wiki.d/ # page file storage >>temp.d/ # tempo

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:58:05PM -0500, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote: > What about this off-the-wall idea? > > working.d/ # top-level writable directory >wiki.d/ # page file storage >temp.d/ # temporary/work files I'm half-wondering if we should call it s

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:39:19AM -0500, The Editor wrote: > >> >> pmwiki/ > >> >> pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) > >> >> "core"/ (or could call the barn =|:)> ) > >> >> scripts/ > >> >> wikilib.d/ > >> >> guiedit/ > >> >> c

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-04 Thread The Editor
On 2/4/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:34:02PM -0500, The Editor wrote: > > I am not as up on all the ins and outs of the different options, but I > > like Tom's idea very well, and for the reasons he gave... Maybe with > > this modification: > > > >

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:34:02PM -0500, The Editor wrote: > I am not as up on all the ins and outs of the different options, but I > like Tom's idea very well, and for the reasons he gave... Maybe with > this modification: > > >> pmwiki/ > >> pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) > >> "

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Neil Herber (nospam)
What about this off-the-wall idea? working.d/ # top-level writable directory wiki.d/ # page file storage temp.d/ # temporary/work files -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ ___ pmwiki-users ma

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread The Editor
I am not as up on all the ins and outs of the different options, but I like Tom's idea very well, and for the reasons he gave... Maybe with this modification: > > pmwiki/ > > pmwiki.php (including pmwiki.php) > > "core"/ (or could call the barn =|:)> ) > > scripts/ >

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:37:02AM +1100, Kathryn Andersen wrote: > You could then put things like .pageindex inside temp.d so that it's > more visible. In fact, one of the reasons I want to have a separate temporary directory is so that we can get rid of the leading dot and "invisible" files that

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:59:25PM +, Hans wrote: > > To have a "top-level" directory may be good, but we still have other > page stores at other places, i.e. wikilib.d of various kinds (pmwiki, > skins, recipes). The issue isn't one of how many pagestores we have, but where writable directo

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:32:08PM -0500, Scott Connard wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:20:54PM +0100, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> > >>> I'd be very interested to hear suggestions for what we should > >>> name this 'top-level wr

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Scott Connard
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:20:54PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> >>> I'd be very interested to hear suggestions for what we should >>> name this >>> 'top-level writable directory'. (In fact, it's my major block at >>> this >>> point

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:41:40PM +0100, Petko Yotov wrote: > > > Lots of (most?) PmWiki administrators aren't familiar with > > > Unix conventions, such as var/ .  I'd like something that's > > > going to be quickly understood even by people who are unaware > > > of the Unix meaning of "var/".  

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Hans
Saturday, February 3, 2007, 9:06:20 PM, Patrick wrote: > I'd be very interested to hear suggestions for what we > should name this 'top-level writable directory'. (In fact, > it's my major block at this point.) Ideally it should be > something that aids understanding by new PmWiki > administra

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: The purpose of the directory is to be the place where PmWiki creates files of various sorts, excluding uploads. This includes a wiki.d/ directory for holding page files, as well as various subdirectories (e.g., work.d/) to hold work files that PmWik

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Petko Yotov
On Saturday 03 February 2007 22:06, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > Lots of (most?) PmWiki administrators aren't familiar with > > Unix conventions, such as var/ .  I'd like something that's > > going to be quickly understood even by people who are unaware > > of the Unix meaning of "var/".   > > ...

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:20:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >I'd be very interested to hear suggestions for what we should name this > >'top-level writable directory'. (In fact, it's my major block at this > >point.) Ideally it should be

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: The structure would be something like: pmwiki/ pmwiki.php# main PmWiki script cookbook/ # directory for cookbook scripts data.d/ # top-level writable directory wiki.d/ # page file storage w

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:03:51AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:40:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > >The structure would be something like: > > > > > > pmwiki/ > > > pmwiki.php# main PmWiki scri

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: It's the OS I'm worried about... Doesn't this basically mean that a lot of hosts with PmWiki can be brought down quite easily? I don't know about "a lot". ... Ok, I'm reasonably convinced. And there are practical bandwidth limitations involved

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 06:55:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > >Lots of (most?) PmWiki administrators aren't familiar with Unix > >conventions, such as var/ . > > Figures. I still think it'd be good to emphasize that this particular > d

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Lots of (most?) PmWiki administrators aren't familiar with Unix conventions, such as var/ . I'd like something that's going to be quickly understood even by people who are unaware of the Unix meaning of "var/". (Even among Unix administrators I f

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 02:20:52PM +0100, Tom Lederer wrote: > Hi, i would like to comment that in my point of view there are > basically three types of directories on a server: > > 1. dirs that should not be touched, because it's the "installation", > 2. dirs that contain data, meaning they c

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:40:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >The structure would be something like: > > > > pmwiki/ > > pmwiki.php# main PmWiki script > > cookbook/ # directory for cookbook scripts > > data.d/

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread Tom Lederer
Am 03.02.2007 um 13:40 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> Back in December I brought up a thread [1] regarding a dedicated >> "work directory" for PmWiki scripts. There were many useful >> suggestions and comments... and then I left for vacation an

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-03 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Back in December I brought up a thread [1] regarding a dedicated "work directory" for PmWiki scripts. There were many useful suggestions and comments... and then I left for vacation and was too distracted with holidays. :-) Good for you! [1]

Re: [pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-02 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:16:10PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > 2. Allow existing sites to continue to use wiki.d/ at the > PmWiki level, and use data.d/work.d/ for work files. The > software would automatically use wiki.d/ at the root if > it exists and there's not a data.d/wiki.d/ directo

[pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

2007-02-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Back in December I brought up a thread [1] regarding a dedicated "work directory" for PmWiki scripts. There were many useful suggestions and comments... and then I left for vacation and was too distracted with holidays. :-) [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user/36932 So,