Fwd: swiki, commanche , 3.6, network rewrite, oh my - smallwiki

6 Nov 2003

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  From: ducasse &lt;ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch&gt;
 Date: Jeu nov 6, 2003  17:37:34 Europe/Zurich
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 Cc: Lukas Renggli &lt;renggli(a)student.unibe.ch&gt;
 Subject: Re: swiki, commanche , 3.6, network rewrite, oh my
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 On Jeudi, nov 6, 2003, at 17:14 Europe/Zurich, ar wrote:

  Stephen,

 Thanks for filling in some of the gaps for me.

   My advice is to load Comanche 6.2
 (KomHttpServer on SqueakMap) and try out the SmallWiki package and 
 see
 if it will meet your needs.  If you want to stick with the old Swiki,
 then my advice is to download and use one of the pre-configured 
 images
 for ComSwiki and don't use Comanche 6.2 or Squeak 3.6. 
 SmallWiki looks like it would fit my needs nicely if if were stable
 enough.  It is stable we runs since 3 months. Now certain aspects are 
 rudimentary.

  Then I can save myself (actually the host of my
UML linux box)
 the extra 6M or so of ram to run swiki separately from my main image, 
 or
 my gray hairs trying to getting it running in 3.6.

 But whereas swiki has been absolutely rock-solid, it looks like 
 Squeak/
 Smallwiki might need some seasoning yet. 
 About Swiki: here we wrote a perl watch-dog and we avoid to change the 
 vm because
 it was crashing so much that once people were thinking to change to a 
 python solution, so nothing
 is as simple as it looks.

  On the initial page, I tried changing the title
of the page from
 'Smallwiki'. Without touching the page content, I pressed save and 
 got and
 error in SWWikiScanner>>step, where it is trying to put a string to a
 WriteStream built on a string. This is because the input steam
 contents are an OrderedCollection on the page content string
 instead of the page content string itself. Can anyone reproduce this? 
 What I can tell you is that:
 	- first we do not know the exact result of the port from VW to Squeak
 	Chris did an excellent job but we did not try it yet because lukas is 
 FLOODED by lectures
 	- second I suggest you to have a look at the current VW version 
 because more things will be 	coming.
 	- third, SmallWiki has a good design and is ready to accept 
 extensions and plugging
 	so feel free to contribute. We did  it for that.

 Stef