[Collaboa] wiki

[Tom Clarke]

On 2/22/06, Esad Hajdarevic <esad at esse.at> wrote:
> Somehow it appears more natural to me to store docs in a svn repository.
> It would enable you to checkout the docs directory, edit the files with
> notepad
> and commit back the changes. I somehow don't like writing long texts in
> <textarea> field ;-)

It's pretty natural with mysql too. In fact, it's dead good at it.

Also, if it was what you wanted, it wouldn't be that hard to add a
client to open it in an editor. In fact, the command line client I
posted the other day, allows you to open a big chunk of billing data
in emacs (or whatever) and submit it back seamlessly.

However, the main reason I would suggest mysql is that we are already
using it and requiring subversion IMHO needlessly adds another
dependency on subversion (some folks are hoping to remove the one we
have already).

I also speak from some experience. I experimented quite extensively
with using subversion as a db. It wasn't that great, despite my hopes
:-)

> I'd also like to add some kind of tree-like structure for navigation.
> Most wikis are intentionally (?)
> lacking this feature, and  I never understood why and found myself
> navigating thru wikis using
> "All pages".

Although perhaps not necessary for the 'simple' wiki you are
suggesting? Just a thought :-)

-Tom