From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T14:17:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Soks - Yet Another Wiki

* Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info> [0106 02:06]:
> James Britt wrote:
> 
> >So far, I tend to follow this progression:
> >
> >1. Plain text in flat files
> >2. Madeleine
> >3. Some more formal database, such as postgreSQL
> 
> 
> ActiveRecord backend will allow to use pretty much any database for 
> which there is an adapter... at least, some of them. RForum does that.
> SQLite is just a default "No Step Three (TM)" option here.
> 
> Madeleine has its pluses (not to mention the sheer coolness factor), but 
> with 20/20 hindsight, was not the best choice for a wiki persistence layer.

Are there any online docs for madeleine apart from the rdoc?
My main beef with it was the 'blackbox' feeling that if instiki went postal
(which happens on some early versions for me) my pages weren't retrievable.

I'd favour sql over madeleinie just for that - at least you can get at rows
in a database.

Problem is my lack of understanding of the concepts, I think - it makes 
following the code more difficult. I see there's a mailing list archive, maybe
I'll trawl through that when I get an hour or two.

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