Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-16 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 4/15/02 7:58 PM, "Ian Bicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:03, Jeffrey P Shell wrote: >> A pattern I've been using for text handling has migrated through a few >> refactorings to become a bag of Handlers. The main interfaces are:: >> >> from Interface import Base, A

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-15 Thread Ian Bicking
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:03, Jeffrey P Shell wrote: > A pattern I've been using for text handling has migrated through a few > refactorings to become a bag of Handlers. The main interfaces are:: > > from Interface import Base, Attribute > class IHandlerResult(Base): > """ > IHandler obje

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-15 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 4/14/02 2:22 PM, "Mike Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to see a CMS that handles standard HTML documents or > at least standard HTML document bodies. I could use this in a > couple projects, although none that's urgent to start right away. > The thing is, when ppl already know

RE: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-15 Thread Ian Bicking
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 09:31, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > I think you mentioned that you were using MySQL for the metadata. It would > be nice if you could "checkpoint" the metadata to a text file and check that > into CVS/Perforce at regular intervals. That way if your Wiki database > crashes, you

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-15 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:31:59AM -0400, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > If I remember correctly, MySQL makes it really easy to dump the database to > a text file using mysqldump, so this probably wouldn't even require any work > in the Wiki code itself. It could just be a cron job. It does. If you

RE: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-15 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
Ian Bicking wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 14:49, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > > I'd like the ability to store versions in a source-control > system like CVS or > > Perforce. So there ought to be some abstraction layer > around the actual > > storage of versions, perhaps with a simple filesystem

Re: Fwd: Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-15 Thread Stephan Diehl
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:49:52PM +0200, Stephan Diehl wrote: > > I always thought that LaTeX is much easier to write with a text > > editor than XML/HTML/SGML. > > Is this a joke? I didn't see the smiley. :) Well, it was no joke but I thought about adding a plea not to kill me about this

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Ian Bicking
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 15:22, Mike Orr wrote: > It would also help to have an option of "accept the source format > without conversion and serve it as is without touching its internal > structure" alongside "convert the source document to an in-between > format so it's easy to reconvert into any ou

Re: Fwd: Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:49:52PM +0200, Stephan Diehl wrote: > I always thought that LaTeX is much easier to write with a text > editor than XML/HTML/SGML. Is this a joke? I didn't see the smiley. :) HTML/XML has nothing equivalent to: * {\bf TEXT} syntax for some formatting operations and

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:22:58PM -0700, wrote: > It would also help to have an option of "accept the source format > without conversion and serve it as is without touching its internal > structure" alongside "convert the source document to an in-between > format so it's easy to reconvert into a

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:50:49AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > but embedding an RSS feed of slashdot > seems more superfluous. Maybe if it's properly modular it won't matter. A standalone RSS kit makes sense, however. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Orr
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:51:11PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > I also am quite interested in using some of the Wiki metaphors to move > towards a CMS of sorts. Certainly it would be a good battery for Webware have a simple CMS kit that would be easy to set up for small sites (without a lot of u

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Ian Bicking
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 14:49, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > I'd like the ability to store versions in a source-control system like CVS or > Perforce. So there ought to be some abstraction layer around the actual > storage of versions, perhaps with a simple filesystem-based storage provided > by def

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Geoffrey Talvola
On Saturday April 13, 2002 11:51 pm, Ian Bicking wrote: > Maybe it's the weather, but I've been itching to do programming that > isn't for anything in particular, but just fun hacking. So I've been > working on a Webware-based Wiki. The current progress is at: > http://wiki.colorstudy.net -- you

Fwd: Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Stephan Diehl
> Yes, converting is what I was thinking about. I don't know how > important the fullness of the markup is -- TWiki, for instance, might be > too full. We don't need to cover every kind of layout -- tables, > definition lists, etc. -- just the ones that are typical and > unambiguous. That might

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Ian Bicking
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 05:17, Stephan Diehl wrote: > > In place of a canonical text-based markup, I'd like to work on > > reversable translations, from some abstract (XML) backend to various > > other formats -- the viewable HTML, something fit for WYSIWYG editors > > (and IE), something for people

Re: [Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-14 Thread Stephan Diehl
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[Webware-discuss] A Webware Wiki

2002-04-13 Thread Ian Bicking
Maybe it's the weather, but I've been itching to do programming that isn't for anything in particular, but just fun hacking. So I've been working on a Webware-based Wiki. The current progress is at: http://wiki.colorstudy.net -- you can fetch a tarball of the code from http://wiki.colorstudy.net