Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Patch: internationalisation with php3 fallback [Was: ...]

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

The patch files were over 40K, which made the listserv hold them for
approval. I upped the msg size limit to 100K.

I'm siding with Arno on the ease of installation issue, which has been a
major concern of mine since version 0.01 back in December. It should be as
easy as tar -xzvf <phpwiki tarball> and it runs on any GNU/Linux or BSD
system. I never anticipated Windows users, so I will include .zip files in
future releases.

When we say "users" of PhpWiki we usually mean "the people who install and
maintain the Wiki," i.e. the sysadmins and programmers. It's my belief
that the easier it is to use (install) the more readily accepted it is;
and that we have three types of usability to consider when coding:

* code usability (hackers can easily add/modify code)
* install/admin usability (nobody has to recompile anything if they have a
vanilla system, INSTALL files are good, config is well commented)
* end user usability (Jakob Neilsen usability, i.e. it's easy to
understand and use the Wiki)

I think code useability is easily achieved. Admin usability involves
compromises between the lowest common denominator system (say,
Linux+PHP3.0.12+DBM files) and the latest release of PHP/Linux/databases. 
At some point we will no longer support Apache 1.x because we've all moved
to Apache 2.0, but that day is far off. End user usability is *really
hard* and, more than anything, requires frequent re-evaluation and
improvement. 

sw

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