[pmwiki-users] Recommended recipes?

[Ray Storey]

Hi Trevor
I think you make a good point, except that the examples you gave tend to be about personal preferences rather than "rights" or "wrongs", so:

* sandbox a bit
* make a decision that suits you
* move on, and live with your decision

In some cases, if you change your mind down the track, there will be an acceptable workaround which may be a recipe created by someone whose thinking went the same track as yours.

You are going to find that folks are continually "inventing better mousetraps" which will make your initial decisions seem sub-optimal, and this will set up a similar conundrum...you, and the world, are in continual flux...

Warm regards

Ray Storey
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> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:55:18 +0200
> From: twylite at crypt.co.za
> To: raystorey at hotmail.com
> CC: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] Recommended recipes?
> 
> Thanks Ray,
> > In my experience pmwiki lends itself well to starting simple, 
> > sandboxing, adding functionality as you recognise the need.
> >
> > Unless your needs are very simple, or your mind is very disciplined, 
> > you ain't going to get it right first time...and that is not a crime.
> This is pretty much what I am planning to do, but I realised quite early 
> in the process that there are a number of decisions that can be quite 
> costly (time, effort) if I don't get them right from the start:
> 
> * Changing the Wiki  markup to 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Creole or 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Markdown is a decision that can only 
> be taken before any content is created.
> 
> * Changing the linking scheme of the Wiki to an 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AlternateNamingScheme or even to 
> disable CamelCaseLinks needs to be done from the start.  CamelCaseLinks 
> could be enabled later, but not disabled without a significant 
> probability of destroying existing links.
> 
> * PageStore changes such as 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PerGroupSubDirectories can be 
> awkward to introduce once many pages exist.  Changing where uploads are 
> stored as in http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UploadPlus would be 
> extremely difficult to automate.
> 
> * Getting rid of Main (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/GetRidOfMain) 
> or changing the group home page name 
> (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/GroupHomePageChange) would involve 
> renaming pages and altering links, and may not be straightforward 
> depending on the size of the Wiki.  For a public Wiki this would also 
> destroy URLs that may have been bookmarked.
> 
> * If I introduce say 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageTableOfContents to create ToCs, 
> but later find that it is buggy or doesn't interact well with some 
> common/useful recipes, then I may need to change the markup on many 
> pages in order to migrate to another ToC recipe.
> 
> * The previous point is generally true for any recipe/extension that 
> adds markup and which graduates from the sandbox -- removing such 
> extensions is non-trivial, so you want to avoid installing one where a 
> more suitable alternative exists, suggesting a need to investigate 
> alternatives.
> 
> I try to keep my approach disciplined, even if my mind isn't ;)
> 
> Regards,
> Trevor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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