Lainaus Murray Altheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sakari,
It is indeed for security purposes. Few systems administrators would
want to install software that permitted external users to access any
file on a server, or even have access (at all) to the local file
system. Wikis in general don't need such access so there's not much
of an argument for including it.
Sounds reasonable. However, in our case we have a number of documents
of various types - Word, Excel, TeX, PDF, PowerPoint, etc. that we
want publish to all users of the wiki. It seems very complicated and
error-prone to try to transform all these existing documents into some
JSPWiki format (by plugins?). Instead, it would be much easier, I
think, to keep the documents as they are, and just launch an
appropriate program (in a separate window or tab) when a user clicks
on the name of a document, wanting to have a closer look.
(Also, the wiki is intended to be strictly internal to the workplace
here. We shall make an effort not to have external users.)
Sakari Aaltonen
