[Gnumed-devel] Re: twiki and moin moin

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On Thu Mar  3  9:31 , David Grant  sent:

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>David Grant wrote:
>> The major disadvantage of switching away from twiki, is as Jim and 
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>> Karsten were talking about, is that the syntax is different between 
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>> almost all wikis and also the links will be all screwed up. Someone 
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It's not that different. I spent 3 late nights ( countdown to the inevitable 
late night AMI , but isn't that how  hackers die nobly (young)  ?) ,
 doing a twiki to moinmoin
markup parser, and over 95% of the links can be automatically mapped.


>> said that we haven't invested in anything wiki-specific, and that's 
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>> not true. Jim and others have invested a lot of time adding content, 
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>> and the content is twiki-specific.



>> The fact that moin moin is written in python comes up sometimes but it 
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>> is a moot point. No one in the gnumed project is interested in 
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>> re-writing bits of code for the wiki (I hope). There are so many wiki 
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>> projects out there, no need to look at the source code for any of 
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>> them, or to modify it. Just find on and use it. If a wiki was written 
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>> in COBOL, and if it was the best, then we should use it.
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if everyone adopted that type of logic, then why don't we all become
real estate agents. 

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