[pmwiki-users] Re: Perfection and Menus (WAS: onover-bundling) . . .

[Fred Chittenden]

> [Original Message]
> From: David Spitzley <dspitzle at wash.k12.mi.us>
> To: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
> Date: 3/9/2005 4:29:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Re: Perfection and Menus (WAS: onover-bundling) . . .
>
> Well, just in case PM is wavering on his decision to include GUIedit in
> the core installation, I would argue that the GUIedit module is, if not
> >needed<, then extremely useful for what has historically been the
> primary feature of a Wiki:  the enabling of non-techies to participate
> in the creation of the wiki with a minimum of training.  I think it is
> entirely appropriate that it is disabled by default, 

GUIedit should be enabled by default as pmwiki's foundation should be ease of use.  

Of my pet peaves as a webmaster would be to simplify the ease of updates.  

I'd like to see the config file broken up into two files.  
Wiki_ID -- for a wiki's identity (URLs, passwords, and other similar rarely changed stuff in the updating process). 
Wiki_Config -- for the various frequently configured features of the wiki.  These would be set to the most commonly used settings to reduce webmaster updating overhead. 
This way, one could easily update a wiki by uploading Wiki_config to the Local folder while leaving the Wiki_ID identity file untouched.  There are obviously other menu driven ways one might handle this to ease overhead, but hey, one thing at a time.  

Always, Fred C
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