You're right, Dan. I really ought to stop recommending TWiki. <nop>_It was_ <nop>*by far* the best thing alive when I put it up 4 years ago at a former employer. I did the ugly task of forcing people to use BumpyWords. (tsk,tsk, I'm editing your doc! do it right!) Hindsight, I think it caught on because I wrote 90% of everything for 2 years and my techs could search for and maybe even *find* useful info instead of phkng calling me all day. TWiki for me was simply a great way to write quick stuff quickly and to publish more format-intensive stuff consistently. then there's, mm, LDAP Plugin. Search the dreckry from yer browser? The TWiki core developers are very consistent and conservative. Good for them, I think, but wikked little tools (perl tools) like that one make me wanna take these guys seriously. I still don't know why perl is a strike against, tho, or how TWiki is any more difficult to install and configure than any mySQL/PHP thing. I can put up a TWiki in about 20 minutes.. Mm, now I should go back and read my first paragraph again. And get proficient at mySQL and PHP. perl is probably the worst language ever written.. and the most useful. I can't find the quote! Dan Rue wrote: >I just have to respond when twiki is mentioned. I think someone >recommended it a few messages ago (deleted already). As a user and >admin who is stuck on twiki, I have a few criticisms. > >The way I see it is thus: twiki was one of if not the first wiki >implimentation. That's great, way to be a leader. However, strike one, >it's perl. Strike two, it's complicated to install, set up, and use >compared to modern wikis. Strike three, it's syntax is horrid. Wiki's >have come a long way. Don't make the mistake of going wiht twiki if >you're doing a fresh wiki install today. > >I'm glad you found drupal and like it. drupal and wiki's solve >different problems (we run both at work internally *sigh*). For wikis, >i recommend mediawiki (think: wikipedia) and dokuwiki (not much >experience but I hear good things). > >Dan > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060101/ae397815/attachment.htm