Shlomi Fish wrote:

Well, I can elaborate on this a bit. What Guy said is correct. We found

Zope very hard to make sense of, and very hard to automate and interact
with. (none of us knew Python, much less Zope well enough). I tried
upgrading it once. After the product itself was upgraded, we had to
upgrade the components. The squishdot component had to be upgraded from
its earliest recorded release to its current one, each time requiring a
few manual steps. (why not have a unified regression script is beyond my
understanding).



I'm sortof hopeing that the debian maintainers fixed that. They usually do.

Then came the Cross-Site Scripting bug, so we decided to immediately drop
it in favour of PostNuke.


That is defenitely fixed by using Debian. You don't have to upgrade on bugs - the fix is backported.

As for Wikis: it seems to me that Zope would be an overkill if everything
you want is a wiki. My take on some of the Wikis I encountered:


But zope is an infrastructure to some of the others, isn't it?

In any case, I'm going after something available in debian stable. This means, as far as I can tell, squishdot, zwiki, and that's pretty much it.

I'm hoping to avoid all upgrade problems until the next Debian release.

1. Kwiki (http://kwiki.org/) - extremely easy to set up, but has a pretty
limited syntax and quite annoying conventions. Still, not half bad. Has
many extensions available. Does not support attachments.

2. Chiq Chaq - relatively easy to set up. Supports Hebrew very well. A
JavaScript-hell so it's better to avoid it. (and ergo, quite unreliable)

3. TWiki - Does not seem too easy to set up, but I was very impressed from
its power and conventions. Supports attachments very well.

4. MediaWiki - this is the wiki behind the Wikipedia. Very, very powerful.
Could be an overkill for many uses. Never tried setting it up.

There are plenty of others:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines

Regards,

Shlomi Fish




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