Franco Bagnoli wrote: > > 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.
Have you talked with Peter Theony about your changes at all? He seems to be totally in favour of massive and ruthless refactoring... that's what XP and Wiki webs are all about. Wim
