is a wiki engine based on a cvs/svn a good idea?

[piotr maliñski]

I'm planning to wite a fully featured wiki in Python in one of
frameworks. I've seen some notes about wiki/documentation management
scripts that use SVN as a data storage/versioning.
I've been using SVN a bit but I don't know if it's a good idea to use
it in a wiki engine. Pro: versioning / diffs, Cons: you need your own
svn/cvs repository, can pyLucene or Xapwrap index this?

[Damjan]

> I'm planning to wite a fully featured wiki in Python in one of

frameworks. I've seen some notes about wiki/documentation management
scripts that use SVN as a data storage/versioning.
Cool
I've been using SVN a bit but I don't know if it's a good idea to use
it in a wiki engine. Pro: versioning / diffs, Cons: you need your own
svn/cvs repository, can pyLucene or Xapwrap index this?

You can certanly index the svn checkout if nothing else.

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damjan

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

piotr maliski a écrit :

I'm planning to wite a fully featured wiki in Python
Then first have a look at both moinmoin and Trac. Good part of the job
is already done.
in one of
frameworks. I've seen some notes about wiki/documentation management
scripts that use SVN as a data storage/versioning.
I've been using SVN a bit but I don't know if it's a good idea to use
it in a wiki engine.
This has been discussed for Trac, cf:
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wi...ionIntegration
http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WhySQLite
Pro: versioning / diffs,
Cons: you need your own svn/cvs repository,
can pyLucene or Xapwrap index this?

[R. P. Dillon]

TWiki, written in perl, makes extensive use of versioning/diff
functionality you mention through the use of RCS, which, IIRC, is the
basis for CVS. This method eliminates the need for the repository as
such, and merely requires the presence of the RCS files (and RCS).

Unless you _want_ to host your data on a separate machine than the one
hosting the wiki, you might consider RCS as an alternative to CVS.

OTOH, it is clearly a good idea to base your software on such a tool,
given that TWiki does it and has proven to be quite successful. =)

Rick

piotr malin'ski wrote:

I'm planning to wite a fully featured wiki in Python in one of
frameworks. I've seen some notes about wiki/documentation management
scripts that use SVN as a data storage/versioning.
I've been using SVN a bit but I don't know if it's a good idea to use
it in a wiki engine. Pro: versioning / diffs, Cons: you need your own
svn/cvs repository, can pyLucene or Xapwrap index this?