Re: [Phpwiki-talk] stable release

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Aristedes Maniatis schrieb:
> OK. That is good to know. I am not running Debian, but is there a 1.3.7 
> tar somewhere or is it only possible to fetch that version out of CVS?

1.3.7 is not on sf.net anymore, and I don't consider 1.3.7 stable 
enough. Compared to 1.3.9 and 10.
I fixed about 60 bugs that were in 1.3.7 and before.

> I've had a couple of private responses already to say that hopefully a 
> stable version of phpwiki will be focussed on in the future, rather than 
> continually adding new features at every point release. It is certainly 
> my experience that as an open source project becomes more mature, 
> development becomes structured and new features released separately to 
> bug fixes.

Look through the email archive concerning stability goals. We had this 
discussion 1-2 months ago.

> I am certainly new to this project's development cycle, but it concerns 
> me that 1.3.11 will be adding 'buddy ratings" (see here 
> http://www.wikilens.org/index.php/Restaurant). It seems like phpwiki is 
> turning into yet another CMS. Really I just wanted a wiki that works 
> well and if 1.3.11 adds another feature that needs further debugging....

These new features don't harm stability at all.
Just some plugin and theme extensions. The rating feature is only 
available of you use the wikilens theme or a theme derived from wikilens.

> Does anyone have experience of any other wikis which are focussed on 
> just the wiki aspect? We'd like to use this system for internal office 
> and processes documentation. We have a little experience in Drupal, but 
> that seems too complex for this relatively simple need.

The simpliest of all is guiki. a pure html wiki.
pmwiki is in a state of about 60% of phpwiki.
mediawiki is quite ok, but limited to a set very special features and 
runs only with mysql.
twiki (huge) and takkawiki come to my mind also. there are certainly more.

> Obviously the programmers of this project are doing a great job, but it 
> might just be that their goals are not what I need to achieve.

> On 31/05/2004, at 11:09 AM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:45:58PM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>>> Thanks for this feedback. Where would I find that list of recommended
>>> patches? Looking through the cvs it doesn't look like any of the
>>> branches have bug fixes patches applied to them, so it seems that most
>>> of the bug fixes are mixed in with new features (and new bugs) as
>>> phpWiki is being developed. So I still don't know which version to use
>>> in an actual production environment.
>>
>> 1.3.7 works well for me and, apparently, a pile of Debian users.  Not 
>> that I'm stretching it overly much, though.
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