From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T19:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting up a wiki when you don't have root

* David Heinemeier Hansson <david@loudthinking.com> [0451 23:51]:
> >In fairness, Ruby's new super-cool Instiki is even simpler, but you 
> >can't
> >usually count on Ruby being installed. In contrast, perl is almost 
> >always
> >available on the server.
> 
> Actually, Ruby 1.6.7 is available on a great many servers. If someone 
> would like to submit a compatibility patch that would dump Instiki 
> down, it would be even easier. Of course I'd have to include WEBrick 
> and any other libraries that wasn't available at 1.6.7 time, but that's 
> not too bad.
> 
> I wonder how badly RedCloth and RDoc depend on 1.8.x? I looks like 
> BlueCloth requires 1.8.1, though.

RedCloth is fine on 1.6.8, but madeleine is 1.8 only :(
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