On 22 March 2013 19:08, Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Concerning problem with portal: AFAICS it is the same problem > as in virtual machine that we received from Bill. >
I am not aware of any such problem. I am able to run Plone and ZWiki within Plone on the VM that a keep on my own server for my local use. > ... > Well, the question is: do we need its features beyond what is > offered by wiki? > I am inclined to agree with Waldek. It always seemed to me that introducing Plone aka "AxiomPortal" was essentially a failure - except of course Ralf was one person who did manage to use it seriously. > ... > ATM I do not know which features are important. I want a wiki > (giving access to FriCAS) and I want to preserve old content. > Running mathaction satisfies both needs. There is also time > and effort factor. As long as mathaction was running on Sage > server it was good enough (for me editing was not working but > it worked for other folks). With mataction gone from the net > we needed replacement. Running mathaction is the fastest > way to re-establish wiki. > > 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). Also, I want to preserve > core mathaction functionality (ability to run math programs > and use Latex notation) but the software may change. > I will see if maintaning current software stack (zope, Plone, > ZWiki, LatexWiki, mathaction) is easier than switching to different > software. However, any switch will not be fast and > in the mean time instead of theorizing we can run old > software. > I always thought it might be a good idea to base a new "Axiom Wiki" on the Media Wiki software that is used by Wikipedia. It certain is active and mature enough now while at the mean time ZWiki as a live project has all but disappeared and Zope and Plone have moved on to much newer, revised, and mostly incompatible versions based on a new generation of Zope. Bill Page. -- 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.
