> There is no buildout.cfg. No? Well, I currently don't have the VM available. It consumes too much space on my laptop.
> I am affraid that wiki software is in a strange state, where some > parts are installed from distribution, other are hacked by hand. The reason why I did not upgrade plone myself was that I was unable to analyse Bill's setup and since Zwiki is not supported anymore, I feared that upgrading plone will break everything. > Concerning problem with portal: AFAICS it is the same problem as in > virtual machine that we received from Bill. No. In Bill's machine the portal was/is working fine. > Well, the question is: do we need its features beyond what is offered > by wiki? Hmm, it's exactly my question. I didn't want to support axiom-wiki, because I didn't like it so much and as you see the effort it takes to make it work is quite amazing. You have it running now, so it's not an immediate need to change something, but I was not asking about the "wiki". "Wiki" is to vague a concept as that I would know what *you* understand by it and how it differs from mine. So I ask you again. What features do you want? And I expect an answer like this a) everyone (or only trusted users?) should be able to edit the site. b) it should be possible to post fricas snippets and the site would compute and show the result c) ... What are you wishes? a) Can easily be done by any content management system or even have it for free by a wiki at github. b) I would rather like something similar to the sage notebook. As you know I have a temporary version here. http://fricas.risc.jku.at/ I'm currently still investigating how to get just the sage-notebook software (without sage) easily installed as a frontend for FriCAS. If that is completed then we could run something similar to http://sagenb.org/ (or at least something where selected people could post their worksheets since I don't have the resources to let thousands of users run fricas on that server). In other words, from my point of view, I don't need mathaction. The content is interesting (after revision), but not the underlying software. > There is also time and effort factor. There are two factors. 1) Maintaining the underlying software stack for the website 2) Maintaining/expanding the content itself. I'd like to reduce the effort for (1). That was why I was starting http://hemmecke.github.com/axiom-wiki/mathaction.html Here is the corresponding git-repo of these html page. https://github.com/hemmecke/axiom-wiki Editing would be done via pushing to this git repo. > Let me add that there is feature which current mathaction is missing > but I consider essential, namely backups in "neutral format" (as > opposed to binary dumps). What do you mean by "neutral format" and what "binary dumps" do you -refer to? > Also, I want to preserve core mathaction functionality (ability to > run math programs and use Latex notation) but the software may > change. Nowadays MathJax is the way to go. I think the sage-notebook software already includes this. > instead of theorizing we can run old software. Sure. But that you have done already. Now it's time to think about true alternatives or at least getting the software stack up-to-date. I wouldn't trust older versions of plone anymore. In 2009 plone received a hotfix because it was possible to let run arbitrary code just by entering a special URL. If you don't have a daily backup of the data everything might be be in danger. (Sorry, but I don't know whether this scenario applies to the Plone version you are running now.) Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
