Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Something very weird has happened to my Wiki

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:33:25 -0000
"Lawrence Akka" <Law...@th...> wrote:

> Actually, Jeff, if you delete HomePage, all the Virgin pages are
reloaded 

Aha!  Yes, of course.

> Clearly this is an undesirable "feature".  The Virgin wiki should only
be loaded if the > Home page is missing, and its most recent version is 1,
or something like that

Actually, I think the virgin wiki should probably only be loaded if the
page database is empty (no pages).  The rest of the time, it should take
manual intervention (i.e. load pgsrc via PhpWikiAdministration).

Short term problems with this:

1. People who don't run PHP as an apache module currently can't use any of
the administrative features, as the current login code (I think) depends
on mod_php.  (As always: once we move away from HTTP auth base
authentification, this will cease to be a problem.)

2. Reini's bug: where the load-up of the version wiki seems to crap out in
mid de-virginization.

Also, I think we need to introduce some kind of versioning meta-data into
the stock pgsrc.

When one upgrades to a new release of PhpWiki, in general one does not
want to replace most of the pgsrc.  On the other hand, sometimes upgrading
PhpWiki will break some of the "magic pages" (PhpWikiAdministration,
RecentChanges, TitleSearch, etc...)  If each page in the distributed pgsrc
had a pgsrc_version meta-data, then there could be an option to only
update the page if the pgsrc_version is greater than that currently in the
database.  (The "major" part of pgsrc_version should be incremented when
there are functional changes to the page, the "minor" version gets bumped
everytime the pgsrc is modified.)