Fair enough, we can agree to disagree on scope for now. Part of the community process I presume would be methodical consideration of alternatives as a planning process.
Anyone else think moving to a community development model would be a good move? Patrick? - Henrik DaveG wrote: > > > Henrik Bechmann wrote: >> But I believe the next step is to stop supporting PHP4, by which I >> mean, transition more to the OOP features of the language, eventually >> exclusively. > Pm has frequently expressed the opinion that OO is not likely to be in > PmWiki's future. [1] > >> You ask if there is a problem that you cannot see that requires >> migration to OOP. Have you tried to follow the PmWiki code? With the >> greatest respect for Patrick, it falls into all the traps available >> to structured programming, > I agree, the code is hard to follow, particularly for those new to > PHP, so added clarity would be nice. However, I don't see that a move > to OO specifically would do that. Clarity can be added in a non-OO > fashion as well. > >> Another benefit of a re-write, not to be dismissed, is that it is an > A re-write is a large under-taking. Whilst I agree it would be good to > move PmWiki forward, I don't think a rewrite is where we should go first. > >> Support for customizable, configurable form based entry would IMO >> radically expand the potential user base of PmWiki, and owing to the >> very work that you reference, this feature is relatively accessible, >> but requires further development effort. > PmForms is probably 90% where we need to be. There's not too much > missing. > >> PmWiki is most certainly a laggard by now. The current version has >> been in beta for far too long > That does not make PmWiki a laggard -- it's features are fairly > competitive. Development however is certainly lagging. Perhaps this is > simply semantics. > >> In any case, surely as a product matures, if it is to become >> established in the long term, it requires an active community of >> developers to sustain it (for the core!). > Agreed. > > [1] > http://www.pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2005-December/020912.html > > ~ ~ Dave > > -- Henrik Bechmann bechmann.ca _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
