summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--doc/index/discussion.mdwn28
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/plugin.mdwn6
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn
index d5444768c..4f8ead729 100644
--- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ the files and then it *did* compile but 'touch'ing the files after a few minutes
> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now.
> --[[Chris]]
+>> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm
+>> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]]
+
* I wish there was a mailing list, much easier for this sort of stuff than this, apart from
anything else I get to use a decent editor.
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ something, that I think is very valuable.
>>> Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls
>>> there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki,
>>> unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the
->>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. [[--Joey]]
+>>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. --[[Joey]]
>>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access
>>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]]
@@ -143,6 +146,10 @@ with all news or the one with the latest news only, I don't know yet.)
Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags?
+> No, but it should be quite easy to write such a plugin. The otl plugin
+> is a good example of writing a formatting plugin that uses an external
+> conversion program, like asciidoc or txt2tags. --[[Joey]]
+
----
# LaTeX support?
@@ -150,21 +157,38 @@ Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/o
Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX?
(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.)
+> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not
+> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
----
# Using with RCS?
Any examples of using co(1), ci(1) and other RCS related tools with ikiwiki?
+> I don't belive that RCS offers enough SCM features to be useable as a
+> fullfledged backend to ikiwiki. For one thing, there's no way to have
+> hook scripts run when changes are ci'd, is there? So you'd have to ci and
+> then manually run ikiwiki. It should be possible to do an RCS backend
+> that supports web commits with ci, and history (parsing the rcs files by
+> hand?). If you're a masochist. :-) --[[Joey]]
+
----
# Using with CVS?
Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs?
+> No, although the existing svn backend could fairly esily be modified into
+> a CVS backend, by someone who doesn't mind working with CVS. --[[Joey]]
+
----
# Show differences before saving page?
It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or "Show Diff") when
-editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? \ No newline at end of file
+editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
+
+> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think.
+> --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn
index fdd37d954..4e6385d38 100644
--- a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Suggestions of ideas for plugins:
to inline the cgi, although firefox seems to render that nastily with
nested scroll bars. :-(
+*
+
* For PlaceWiki I want to be able to do some custom plugins, including one
that links together subpages about the same place created by different
users. This seems to call for a plugin that applies to every page w/o any
@@ -28,7 +30,5 @@ Suggestions of ideas for plugins:
All the kinds of plugins that blogging software has is also a possibility:
-* Blog post calendar
-
* How about an event calendar. Events could be sub-pages with an embedded
- code to detail recurrance and/or event date/time
+ code to detail recurrance and/or event date/time