Q: What was your starting point, Eddie Wiki Server 1.0 or 1.1? -- Robert Abitbol
A: 1.0. Then I merged in the good parts from EW 1.1, then the mods from Michel's version.
Q: So from a technical point of view, what parts of EW V1.1 were "not good enough", and would some particular users miss them?
A: Well, mainly I already (mistakenly) implemented a lot of stuff he was trying to do. If I thought his was implemented better than mine, then I threw out my version and used his instead. Otherwise, that part of the code wasn't merged.
Q: One thing that was known to be problematic was allowing special characters in page names, which help some users of languages other than English. Such problems can't be regarded as solved unless well-tested on a variety of operating systems. What are your intentions?
A: I'm not sure yet. I merged the character set functions from EW 1.1, but I'm not sure how well-tested they are...
Q: I propose the idea that the definition of what is recognized as a page name is obtained from the configuration file (in the form of some type of regular expression, or as a choice between various alternatives). What do you think?
A: It sounds interesting, but I don't know. Speed is still a concern with something like that.
Surely there needn't be much impact on speed if there's simply a choice.
Q: Is the latest executable (implementing user preferences) available?
A: Well, user preferences still have some annoying bugs associated with them - the version up now I don't think does.
Q: The diffs function is still going wrong sometimes. Can you add a note here when it's fixed?
A: Sure - it's probably a versioning thing though rather than a problem with the diff engine itself...
Q: Why is there a config.wkc.wik file as well as a config.wkc file?
A: Previous versions were opening the wrong file - that was fixed
in the past few days.
Q: If one completes an edit and then goes back to the editing page to make another change, an edit conflict is considered to have occurred when Save is attempted. Can this be avoided by assuming no conflict if the same user (same ip and login) is doing the editing?
A: Acutally what I need to do is send "Location
[site]\n\n" where site was the
page the user just edited, because right now it stays on submit page....