Re: Smallwiki 2

Hi Alex and others, thanks. I tried to improve the model a lot. Especially the problem with the folders/pages is solved now, I think. It is in SCG StORE, marked as broken: * I simplified the structure-hierarchy only to contain Page and Resource; no concept of Folder anymore. But there are decorators that can be wrapped around, e.g. to add children to a page. Currently I'm thinking about putting a lot of functionality into those decorators, this makes the structure hierarchy much more slim and easier to understand I think. What I did so far is the ChildrenDecoration that works pretty well. I started now with the VersionDecoration that should represent the previous version; I'm still unsure about the details of this decoration, it is pretty tricky. Other decorators like security, logging, virtual folders, etc. will be added later on. I think such a design is much better as it separates the different concerns in a cleaner way. I'm very interested what everybody thinks about this (radical) change in the design? * I implemented a more robust way of looking up pages trough a path. The new lookup has been taken out of the Structure hierarchy and is put into a visitor. It supports (unix-)paths starting at current position 'abc/def', paths starting at the root of the wiki '/abc/def', relative paths '../abc' and all combinations of those. There are a lot of tests. I think this will make everything much more easy to use, especially for the end users. * What is more, is that I updated the wiki syntax with better support for tables: At ESUG I was asked if it is possible to align table-cells different to the default behaviour given in the css-stylesheets. SmallWiki 2 now supports an extended table syntax, maybe someone wants to back-port this to SmallWiki 1? <table> := <table_row>+ <table_row> := <table_cell>+ <cr> <table_cell> := "|" <table_content> # default | "|{" <table_content> # left | "||" <table_content> # center | "|}" <table_content> # right Mhh, all these changes made break the whole command-pattern, the context hierarchy and all the views of course. There will be some work needed to adapt the changes. Yes, this is a very good idea! I'm willing to spend one day a week to do pair-programming on SmallWiki. Sometime by the end of the next week would be fine. Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://renggli.freezope.org