* Message by -Radomir Dopieralski- from Tue 2011-04-26: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Lasse Kliemann > <lasse-list-moin-user-2...@mail.plastictree.net> wrote: > > * Message by -Radomir Dopieralski- from Tue 2011-04-26: > >> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Lasse Kliemann > >> <lasse-list-moin-user-2...@mail.plastictree.net> wrote: > >> > Moin2 will support a Mercurial storage backend, I have read. > >> > > >> > Will this allow users to check out the whole wiki via Mercurial, > >> > edit pages using their favorite texteditor and then publishing > >> > them by commit and push? I mean something similar to what Ikiwiki > >> > does. That would be an *extremely* useful feature. > >> > >> That was the idea when the work on this backend started, but in the mean > >> time > >> MoinMoin2 changed a little, and now the content of the items is stored in > >> files > >> that have random names. So, although you can edit them and commit, finding > >> the > >> right files may be nontrivial. > > > > Would it be difficult to generate symlinks that map from the > > "realname" of the item (i.e., the name under which it would be > > known to a user of the web interface) to the actual file with the > > random name? > > If we could reliably create valid file names from the page titles, we > would use that directly. > Unfortunately every file system on every platform has its own set of > allowed characters, special files, filename length limit and case > sensitivity. And even if we get it all right for the existing > filesystems, someone will create a new one next year...
Then how about providing the mapping in an easy-to-parse format in a text file? Then users can write their own tools to find the right files. For example, I could imagine generating a HTML file from it and then using the w3m browser's "edit file" feature, which fires up an editor of the user's choice on local files.
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