From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T11:06:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Soks - Yet Another Wiki

Hi,

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:47:07 +0900, James Britt
<jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> > James Britt wrote:
> >
> >> If the perpetual "Bad file descriptor" error on Win32 is fixed too,
> >> that would rock; if not, I could never recommend it to my co-workers.
> >
> >
> > All references about this problem on the web are dated in June and seem
> > to be on a one-click installer 1.8.2 RC 7 or thereabouts.
> > I don't seem to get anything like this on my own Windows box with Ruby
> > 1.8.2 final and Instiki 0.9.2. Has it disappeared and/or was fixed?
> 
> >
> > If it is happening on a current version, please let me know.
> 
> I last ran it on the Ruby 1.8.2 final 1-click.  Not sure what version of
> Instiki.
> 
> 
> >
> >> But Soks uses flat files, not Madeleine, which wins the day for me,
> >> because other apps can use/create the wiki files for their own
> >> nefarious reasons.
> >
> >
> > I can certainly see the benefit of this. In fact, the same thing (flat
> > file per page persistence) is considered as a possible route for Instiki
> > 2. Although it's more likely that we will go with SQLite / ActiveRecord
> > backend instead.
> 
> Too bad.  I prefer to stick with  text files as much as possible, as it
> makes it easier for me to move data around and arbitrarily mix and match
> other applications plus keep all application code as pure Ruby.

Hiki is a very good Wiki clone which uses text files as well, but they
don't have English documentation. Soks feels a gap, no doubt. Hiki
supports Apache by default, but it could be setup to use WEBrick too.

Nonetheless, Soks too has some cool ideas. :-)

Cheers,
Joao