[Pmwiki-users] InterMap definitions
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at sci.tamucc.edu
Mon Feb 17 20:54:21 CST 2003
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Dawn Green wrote:
> A lot here ...
>
> > sense to move intermap.txt, localmap.txt, and local.php to be somewhere
> > else other than the pmwiki/ root, but I haven't figured out where yet.
>
> Okay, now here again from the novice with little experience, but honestly, I
> didn't and still don't understand why group specific 'stuff' is going into
> local/ yet localmap.txt and local.php went into the root directory of PmWiki.
...because I hadn't come up with the idea of a "local/" directory when I first
created PmWiki, and I didn't want to break the existing installations that
expect local.php to be in the pmwiki/ directory. It's really that simple. :-)
For a historical perspective, the intermap.txt/localmap.txt feature was
added in December 2001 (prior to pmwiki-0.1 release). WikiGroups and the
scripts/ subdirectory weren't added until pmwiki-0.2 in February 2002.
I didn't think of creating a local/ directory for group scripts until much
later--around the time I started pmichaud.com (July 2002). And I haven't
moved local.php and localmap.txt into local/ because it'll break existing
PmWiki installations and their current location hasn't bugged me enough
to do anything about it yet.
> > If someone wants to propose a new subdirectory structure for housing
> > the various pmwiki-related files, I'm open for suggestions. Propose
> > what would be best w/o worrying about backwards compatibility. I'm a
> > bit concerned that I may soon reach a point where I have to decide
> > between backwards compatibility and an important PmWiki improvement,
>
> Eek! Do it now, before you have too many users!
Alas, I'm not that clairvoyant. At present I just have a nagging feeling
that I might need/want to do something not-very-backwards-compatible in the
near future, but I don't yet know what it is or what might break
as a result. If I did know, I'd definitely make the changes sooner rather
than later. I guess I'm just saying that if people have 'radical' proposals
for change, now's a good time to be making them.
> I have not used trails and would love to see some documentation on how to
> integrate them. Does it exist?
Try http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Experimental/WikiTrail. Also, you can
look at the comments of the trails.php code for some more details. I'm
not sure where the script documentation should generally go in the PmWiki
scheme of things--I'd like to have the documentation as WikiPages, but
then there's the problem of documenting features that a wiki administrator
might not have enabled...
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