Re: [Phpwiki-talk] pmwiki

[Whit B. <wh...@tr...>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:49:02PM +0200, Oliver Betz wrote:

> Right, one page, one file. Could lead to problems, and maybe has some 
> impact on performance and maintenance.

Which would largely depend on the file system. Reiser4? I've run file-based
PHP discussion systems on slow hardware with a hundred or so people actively
on at a time with no latency problems at all, mostly on Reiser3. No doubt a
system with thousands active at once would be more demanding. But with a
file system which behaves like a database in its own operation, not sure
that database storage of random blocks of text will always have a clear
advantage.

> I was missing also basic things like backlinks! I don't know how one 
> can make categories.

The claim is there that it does have category functions.

> PhpWiki has much more advanced features.

It would be great if PhpWiki developed a similar emphasis on modifiability -
including the user documentation of mods. The collection of skins and
plugins is good - the plugins go far beyond PmWiki - but it looks like
adding a _new_ behavior may be easier with PmWiki than PhpWiki, for someone
who's not a core developer? If so, that's a big thing, and something it
would be fun to see PhpWiki catch up on.

Whit