Really happy to see things rolling! I'm unfortunately very busy with other things for at least a week, probably longer. Hope to get back on track soon but will at least follow passively in the background meanwhile.
<:-) On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 11:48:14 AM UTC+2, Jed Carty wrote: > My little robot has gone off into the world by itself, so I have time to > spend on tiddlywiki development again. Currently I have done nothing of > value for TWederation in the past month. So that update is easy. > > I am going to put this here so hopefully people will actually read it: > This is beta software, if you try to use it without reading the small > amount of documentation than it probably won't work. If you try to make > something using it and don't look at and understand the code first it > probably won't work. If you modify nothing and try to make it do something > other than the simple things I mention than it probably won't work. This is > the version where I removed almost all the sarcasm. > > I split the basic mechanism I use for inter-wiki communication into its > own plugin here <http://ooktech.com/jed/ExampleWikis/Federation/>, if you > want to use the mechanism that is what you need to look at and use. > > There are two plugins there, Federation-core which is just the back-end > part, if you put that in a wiki than other wikis can pull content from it. > It doesn't have anything else. > Federation-tools are some very basic tools to make fetching content from > another wiki that has the Federation-core plugin easier. There isn't really > anything in the way of documentation so if you want to make something you > will have to look at the code. > > TWederation is built on top of what is in the Federation-core plugin, I am > still working on refactoring everything in the twederation plugins to make > future development easier. I hope to have the new versions up later today. > > > A very important note: > > This is not the only way to make federated tiddlywikis! This is the way > that I have worked out with a lot of help from other people (most notably > Jeremy and Mat) that doesn't require anything other than a simple file > server for the wikis on the network. I originally made this so that I could > connect multiple wikis on my computer together and it expanded into > something online. There are some important limits on what it can do and I > don't think that this will ever be able to support large networks. If I > manage to create a working community of 100 connected wikis I will be a bit > surprised. Most of the problems when it comes to scale are due to > performance issues. I think that for larger groups we can overcome some of > these problems and retain a distributed structure by allowing multiple > technologies. Once I have the basic TWederation system working well I am > hoping to incorporate the work that Danielo has done with PouchDb (see > NoteSelf <https://noteself.github.io/>) to allow for larger distributed > networks. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/869ace30-c82c-4a15-b510-abc5c3725a8c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
