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-- Martin@Cleaver.org - +1 416 832 7759 Melbourne Business School FT 2004 MBA Exchange Participant to Rotman
=-----Original Message----- =From: Kate L Pugh [mailto:kake@earth.li] =Sent: Sunday, 31 August 2003 9:06 AM =To: Martin@Cleaver.org =Cc: 'Anton Aylward CISSP CISA'; 'Peter Masiar' =Subject: Re: Text file backend? = =On Sat 30 Aug 2003, Martin@Cleaver.org wrote: => Just wondering whether anyone had proposed implementing a flat text =file => back-end to CGI::Wiki. = =It's been proposed, but nobody's actually offered to write it. I =really don't think I'll have the time to do it myself any time soon - =you can see why at = http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi/os.pod/TODO = - but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be done. If somebody =is willing to put in the time to do it, that is. = => Although the performance would not be as quick as a database this => might give CGI::Wiki greater appeal as many TWiki users choose TWiki => because they like the comfort of being able to hack the files if => things go wrong. = =Yup, that does make sense. Although I don't mind loading up a =database client and hacking the store with SQL, I'm sure that a lot of =people would hate to do that :) = =This is just a short response so you know I'm not ignoring you - I =have an awful lot to get done today. I've never used Twiki; I guess I =should have a look at it. I'll try to write more when I have some =time, maybe midweek. = =Kake