At 0:34 -0400 2003/09/14, Martin@Cleaver.org wrote:
Hi Kake, More questions has anyone proposed, and what's the general feeling about, merging the efforts of CGI::Wiki and Kwiki? I question the need for independent efforts and wonder whether a joint community would have better economies of scale. Cheers, Martin
Apart form Jonathan's point, for me the main difference is that Kwiki is a bit of CGI that implements a Wiki. CGI::Wiki isn't, it's a toolkit that lets you build a wiki. There's an important difference - to change how Kwiki works, you're removing bits of it and doing your own thing. You don't need to change how a CGI::Wiki engine works, hopefully, it's just a matter of building the front end differently.
Of course, having said that, I _did_ write CGI::Wiki::Kwiki, which was intended to be a simple Kwiki-like front end to CGI::Wiki that Just Worked, but that was more of a 'move your kwiki to a 'real' database' aid than anything else.
There's no way that openguides could have been built on a Kwiki without serious messing around. Openguides is obviously a wiki, but not what I'd think of as a 'traditional' wiki...