> Considering the emphasis on microkernel and the fact that TW not is > very suitable for multiple collaborators (and even officially named "a > personal notebook") I'm wondering why even bother with creator or > modifier.
The 'modifier' field has *always* been included in the TW core data, and the 'creator' field was first implemented as a TiddlyTools' [[CoreTweaks]] plugin, in direct response to several requests from the community for the feature, in order to support real- world use cases. Although TW is quite obviously well-suited for individuals, many scenarios involve a single file being copied, shared, edited and merged amongst a small group of people. Just because a document is self-contained and edited locally by one person, does not mean that it will never be shared or edited by others at some point in the future. In addition, you can import/export individual tiddlers into other documents, so that a single document may include tiddler content edited by several people, even if that document is only ever directly modified by one 'owner'. Also, there are server-side adaptations of TiddlyWiki, such as http://www.TiddlyWeb.com, which provide robust remote storage mechanisms, with support for multiple users, permissions, revision tracking, etc. All of these features depend heavily on being able to track both the creator and last modifier information reliably. > It clutters and IMO it seems more suitable as > a plugin? And, if in a plugin, an option to put this > and perhaps even the date information as > field data... Obviously, the creator field *can* be implemented as a plugin using custom field data, since that is how it originated. However, by placing this very small piece of code into the TW core, it ensures that *all* new TW documents will properly support these fields in a standard manner, so that even if a document is not directly shared or hosted on a server, any tiddlers that are exported from those documents can be tracked by both creator and last modifier. enjoy, -e Eric Shulman TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
