Hi Jonathan and Anthony Thanks for your comments. I appreciate the work you have done to try and simplify this tricky subject. However, for me, the parametric router and other ideas, such as the autoroutes.py and some other recipes I have seen, are not a good idea, at all.
Now I know you may be thinking, 'Hmm poor soul doesn't seem to know that autoroutes and the other recipes are all just based on the pattern-matching and parametric routers'. Well, I do know -- now! Yes now that I have spent an entire day looking through regex expressions and source code. It is usually a good thing that we have choices, but not choices of blind alleys. IMO there should be one comprehensive way for web2py to do routes. If regex patterns are the only way to solve all situations then so be it - we should just get used to it. All our efforts can then go in building up a comprehensive list of recipes and off-the-shelf regex patterns that we can all just use. The fact that there doesn't seem to be a clear answer to my easy question already says it all, but the idea of renaming plugin_wiki as a work-around puts the issue beyond doubt :) BTW plugin_wiki is one of my favourite things and it really surprises me that no one seems to have expressed an interest in wanting to give it better URLs. Best regards, David --
