[Pmwiki-users] Re: Action to provide last modified date and md5 checksum

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Robin wrote:

> > Umm.. in case I wasn't clear, I want to find out the pmwiki version
> > from an external software (Emacs). It'd be nice if there was some
> > action in standard pmwiki find this out (e.g.  
> > 'action=pmwiki-version'). If I send you some code (using $Version),
> > maybe you can incorporate it?

> I wonder if it would be better to request some kind of capabilities
> list? A bit more complex perhaps, but it could mean that external
> scripts can turn features on and off, and emacs will know what it can do
> and what it can't.

I thought about that briefly, but then I started wondering about security 
aspects of letting the world know what scripts are enabled... that aside, 
I like the idea of pmwiki being able to report it's abilities.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr