On Monday, Apr 25, 2005, at 15:14 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
The web site talks about the latest version of FlexWiki. The port was done with an older version. The FlexWiki developers haven't been especially keen on keeping Mono support when they make architectural decisions. Since most work at MS, that is not surprising.
No, it isn't surprising. But if .NET works as advertised, then the components should be easily interchanged. That is, I should be able to swap the method used for data persistence, whether that be NTFS, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. And if I can do it in Mono, that means I should be able to run FlexWiki on a WAM (Windows, ASP/.NET, MySQL) setup, migrate it to a WMM (Windows, Mono, MySQL) setup, and then migrate it to a LMM (Linux, Mono, MySQL) setup. PostgreSQL would be icing on the cake.
Unlike the NAnt guys which do and the NUnit guys (myself among them) that keep Mono support going from the community side.
Thanks for doing that.
I was just pointing it out as an example. Sorry to have wasted your time.
And a good enough example it was. No time wasted. In fact, it may be a good project for me to see if I can add MySQL support to FlexWiki via Mono. Of course, first I'll have to get Mono installed on OS/X and before that get Tiger install on my Mac. But I suspect I'll be dual booting this Mac soon: Ubuntu and Tiger. :)
BTW, I was able to get OpenWiki, an ASP/VBScript wiki, installed and running on Windows XP Pro using .mdb as the data persistence method. The next step is to swap out the .mdb file for a MySQL database. The project already has a schema for the MySQL tables. I just need to create a user and the database, build the tables, and figure out how to modify the code to point to the MySQL database.
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