[Pmwiki-users] Working with files -- Experience using PmWiki

Joachim Durchholz jo
Wed Sep 15 08:33:29 CDT 2004


chr at home.se wrote:
> 
> One problem is that you can only [upload] one file at a time.

This is a limitation of HTML.
I don't know of any good workaround.

Personally, I think any Wiki should handle files as part of the page for
which they were uploaded. This means that such files should be included
in version control, and rolled back together with the page contents.

This would also avoid the consistency checking hassles that you mentioned.

> However, even for these illustrations I'm starting to use CVS, since
> it allows me to check out the source of the image to my local
> account, modify the source, export it as .png and commit both the
> source and the image to the repository.

This is a different request. You'd like to have something like a simple
"make" tool: be able to upload a file in one format, and have the server
process that file with a given set of commands so that something
displayable results. (Using the traditional "make" tool would allow more
complicated things like displayable files that are generated from
multiple input files.)

To avoid unlimited server load and security issues, the Wiki admin would
have to define the available make scripts.

Regards,
Jo



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