Hey, thanks everybody for your replies. I apologize if the tone of my message sounded nasty or ungrateful, I must admit I had a bout of despair when I wrote it.
To address the points you have made: I had backed up the data before trying the upgrade, so I wasn't in any danger of permanently losing anything. But I wasn't too happy about downgrading back to 1.5.3. As far as documentation is concerned, the Debian package is quite devoid of it, as are most Debian packages. I did however try to do my homework and found a lot of information on the net, most of it quite diluted and unhelpful (to me) . I'm afraid the first time I read something useful about the upgrading process is when I read your responses on this forum. I ended up making a quick awk script to fix the pages for the new syntax, and fixing a few remaining things by hand. It was quicker for me to do this than to massage our data with multiple scripts. I still think a "legacy" flag would be a good idea. Actually, what would be even better would be a "syntax version" variable. As someone firmly on the user side of MoinMoin, I reckon users should have the option of keeping things as they are (including not retraining people) : I'm a IT guy by accident, my real work is gun designer, so I really have no time to muck about with software. As for our MoinMoin users, they are gunsmiths in their 50s. The last thing you want with old geezer artisans who can barely check their email is ask them to learn a new wiki syntax. I couldn't care less if the new syntax is better, what I care about is disturbing these guys' habits as little as possible, as they get grumpy quite easily. This isn't a reproach, I personally like the new MoinMoin syntax and I appreciate your efforts to make MoinMoin better, but in my particular reality with my users, the syntax change only brings me trouble. Having the option of using the latest MoinMoin but keeping the old syntax would be good. I will stick with 1.7.1, I won't upgrade to 1.8. That's because it's the version in the Debian-testing package, and -testing is as cutting-edge a Debian distro as my production server is ever going to run. The 1.7 GUI window is no problem for me, I edit my pages in vi with the "It's all text!" Firefox add-on myself, and my users are used to it, so I won't rattle the nest again. Anyway, thanks a lot for your answers, I won't panic next time :) I just have one last question : I would like to use MoinMoin to keep track of daily tasks for the workers, and to keep track of machine maintenance schedules, etc... What I have in mind is using MonthCalendars to enter those things, and on the terminal PC in the workshop, have a cron job requesting the relevant date pages for the day from the wiki to print out reminders every morning. Do you think something like this already exist, or should I get coding? Take care y'all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
