Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: 1.4 release

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> 	I love phpWiki but I sure wish we could have more
> "stable" versions and a less lengthy open-for-development alpha
> code stretch. I don't mean to be rude, I really do thank everyone
> very much  for all their efforts on behalf of the unwashed
> WikiMasses like me, but how about putting new major markup
> changes into the next major release level?

nnnoooooooo! :-)  1.3 really hasn't been around that long.  i think
getting the wiki markup and new parsing engine going is an important
thing to happen before another stable release.  otherwise it's just that
many more people that are going to have to go through a major overhaul
on their web site.
 
> 	This is such a great system, it's hard to wait for months
> to be able to grab a stable version to use as a base for real
> life.  Guess I shouldn't look the gifthorse in the mouth but
> alpha code is only fun for the developers.

i have yet to put phpwiki into production for myself but i've played
with it a lot and run several 1.3 wiki's for other people and its been
pretty uneventful.  

also upgrading is fairly painless, if you keep all the libs out of the
DocumentRoot (which you should do anyway) and use a seperate directory
for your databases (or use sql).  just untar the source into
/var/lib/phpwiki-1.3.4 (or whatever) and then change the pointers in
index.php to point to the new location.  if it causes problems just roll
back.  if you want to be really careful copy index.php to testwiki.php
and change that first.  that way you can test it out without
interrupting your live wiki.

i know it's not ideal, and i'm looking forward to a stable release as
well, but *good things* are happening, lets not ruin our wonderful
developers momentum :-)

adam.