[cgi-wiki-dev] making nodes first-class objects

Jonathan Swartz cgi-wiki-dev@earth.li
Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:19:54 -0700


> Another possibility is a grand renaming - Kwiki's having one, so why
> not us?  The CGI::* namespace is not really the right place for
> something that doesn't even do any CGI, plus the name is confusing to
> people who expect to install CGI::Wiki and have an instant wiki.
> Wiki::Toolkit is the thing I have in mind.
>
> CGI::Wiki can stick around for a while, to give people time to migrate
> to Wiki::Toolkit.  It may or may not be worth changing it to be a
> Wiki::Toolkit wrapper before we finally bury it.  An advantage of
> doing that would be that we'd have its comprehensive test suite
> available to give Wiki::Toolkit a good working-over (though of course
> I want Wiki::Toolkit to have its own, equally comprehensive test
> suite).
>
> Votes?  Aye?  Nay?  Offers of help?

I'm in favor of this - though I have less invested because I'm not yet using
CGI::Wiki. :) I'd be willing to help design the new class.

Jon