On Mon 17 Nov 2003, Jody Belka lists-cgiwikidev@pimb.org wrote:
I've just hacked table-prefix support into my local copy of CGI::Wiki so as to enable all the OpenGuides sites hosted on my system to work out of one central database. Is this something other people would be interested in, and should i sort out some patch files with the changes i made and then email them to the list?
Yes, people have expressed interest in this. I think it would be a useful feature. It - like any other new feature - won't go in the distribution without tests though, and as this is quite a fundamental feature it won't go in unless it's *very* well tested. I don't want to be telling people that it's now safe to use an existing database to put their CGI::Wiki tables in and then for it to overwrite some of their data.
It's a bit of a pain to write tests at the moment since everything is so intertwingled, and I'm slowly working through the test suite converting the tests to a more independent format. You can wait for me to finish that, or you can write tests using the existing framework - up to you. If you choose the latter though there is somewhat of a race condition as I may finish and release before you :)
Kake