From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-04-26T02:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting up a wiki when you don't have root

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:06:42 +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:
> On 20/4/2004, at 11:43 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> The bad news about 0.8.0 is that it will require a conversion utility
>> for current users of Ruwiki, as I am joining 2004 and using YAML as the
>> storage format for the Wiki pages. The good news is that it will have a
>> lot of features that are needed, possibly a bit earlier than planned and
>> in my current To Do list.
> Excellent news about continued work on RuWiki!
>
> While you're writing the convertor for users that are upgrading, how
> about writing a usemod -> RuWiki convertor?  That would make a switch of
> sites like RubyGarden.orb/ruby much much easier. :)

Well, the Ruwiki converter is simply something that does effectively 
YAML.dump(Marshal.load(filename)) :)

I would gladly accept a Usemod convertor written by someone, but I also have 
plans to support some things that make working with alternative markup 
engines that much easier... I can't give too much on details right now, 
because the API hasn't been set yet.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.04.25
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