chad fowler [mailto:chadfowler / yahoo.com] wrote:

> Nathaniel Talbott and Jimmy Thrasher have a Wiki in
> Ruby (NaniWiki) that looks like (sort of) what you're
> looking for.  More simple than RWiki.  Shouldn't be
> too difficult to write a script to convert usemod to
> it.  I haven't actually tried to install this wiki
> yet, but I have read through the code.  Looks to be
> well written, complete with a full test suite (of
> course), which should make it pretty easy to jump
> into.  Nathaniel mentioned that it still needed a lot
> of work, . . .

And Chad gets the "Understatement of the Week" award :-)

It needs a LOT of work; it was something I did in few nights because I
felt like it, and then haven't done much more with. I'm still excited
about the possibilities for it, but it's pretty low on the list. Jimmy
has done a lot of work on it, cleaning up behind me and adding new
features. Anyone else who wants to pitch in is welcome to: the more the
merrier! Perhaps we could turn it into a really cool, industrial
strength wiki. I know the reason I decided to write this over using
UseMod was due to the inability to add functionality to UseMod outside
of what the author expected (overall it's pretty clean code, it just
isn't factored very well).


> . . . but it's much better than nothing. It might
> even be possible to write a new backend (NaniWiki
> seems to support pluggable backends) that would work
> with usemod files.

Yeah, pluggable back ends was Jimmy's idea, and it's pretty nifty. A
UseMod backend would be really, really cool...


> http://sourceforge.net/projects/naniwiki/



Nathaniel

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