On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Tony Bowden wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:58:10PM +0200, Franco Bagnoli wrote: > > > > You really don't want to delve into the innards of TWiki though. > > I was not able to understand this phrase (does it has a subtle meaning?) > > It means "by all means *use* Twiki, but don't even contemplate trying to > work with the innards. It is possibly the most insane Perl I have ever > seen."
aha, understood. Sorry, but sometimes there are some idiomatic expressions which are hard for us (non-english people). Anyhow, I agree with you. I made TWiki run under mod_perl and it was really a pain. I cleaned up a little the thing, but it should really be rewritten using an object approach. I do not want to do that (I know it was planned, but I do not know the schedule), so I'm simply cutting TWiki code and replacing it with Template processinng. TWiki is shrinking at every pass. At present I stopped that, since, as I told, I am developing a quiz-maker system. I think I'll restart by modularizing the system. The first module I am interested in is a converter from a wiki syntax (i.e., as simple as possible) to xml (HTML), latex, etc. This module can be used standalone, per personal writing (I am tired of typing latex) or as an apache module to convert simple text to something (with caching). With mod_template, this should represent 50% of twiki code. Then I would like to exploit openinteract or something similar for access control. -- Franco Bagnoli (franchino) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata "G. Sansone" - Universita' di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3 I-50139 Firenze, Italy. Tel. +39 0554796422, fax: +39 055471787 GPG Key fingerprint = 169D 9EA5 8FD3 7EDA E43A 9830 255F BCEC 0D63 3728
