I'm kind of thinking that if the user is setting up MySQL themselves, then they have control of the server and might as well be setting up TiddlyServer or Bob anyway, unless MySQL is up their alley, in which case it's no big deal. On the flip side, using PouchDB or SQLite instead of the file system would allow some more advanced solutions such as multi-user editing and version control to be built in much easier.
I'm hoping eventually to find a way to host wikis in TiddlyServer without using the Node server instance, since it does consume a certain amount of memory per wiki, and this is one step in that direction. Once that is accomplished we could transparently write a PHP version of TiddlyServer that could be used on any shared hosting. Once that happens TiddlyWiki could become a serious contender as a self-hosted multi-user wiki. But since my paradigm is to operate within the constrains of current TiddlyWiki code, I have to take it one step at a time. On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 1:54 PM Jed Carty <inmyso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > > The benefit of PouchDB is that it can be installed using NPM, or packaged > into something like BobEXE without having to do a system-wide installation. > For a local installation PouchDB is much easier to set up than > MySQL/MariaDb. If you didn't go the packaged route like BobEXE it would at > worst be cloning a repo and typing `npm install` to install the node > dependencies. Then you don't have to worry about setting up users or > anything on the databases, it is all self-contained. > > It is as easy to set up as sqlite, and if there are any MySQL/MariaDB > servers that are that easy to set up I would very much like to know because > every time I set up a database I forget how to do it and I have to look up > how to set up new users and permissions all over again. > > On a remote server it would be at most one extra command when installing > node and tiddlywiki, and that is only if we don't have an install script > set up. > > If you want something larger on a remote server, CouchDB has the same > interface as pouchdb and is as easy to set up as MySQL/MariaDB in my > experience. > > I don't know if many hosting providers give out of the box CouchDB > installations, so that may be a problem, but I think that anyone in a > situation to need something that heavy duty would be experienced enough to > not have trouble with it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1fb383cf-b1d0-4cd0-9768-a6f315076b53%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1fb383cf-b1d0-4cd0-9768-a6f315076b53%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ1vdSQUnaOTbruvDuwADqBsC__epJMJyLGY-Ujqxh2pTakM8A%40mail.gmail.com.
