Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the
[[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages.
+[[toc ]]
+
# Installation/Setup questions
+I ran into a problem when installing from svn. I got "invalid variable
+interpolation" errors for Wrappers.pm. I added the flag '--extract-all' to
+'po/Makefile' and 'po/t' to the xgettext line. Once I did that I was able
+to make and make test just fine. --HarleyPig
+
+> It would be helpful if you could post the actual error message you saw.
+> Also would be nice to know what versions of perl and gettext you have.
+> Perhaps your xgettext is an older version from before it natively
+> supported perl.
+> Adding --extract-all doesn't seem like a good idea, since this causes it
+> to treat every string in the entire wiki as translatable. I don't know
+> what you're talking about regarding 'po/t'. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/www/ikiwiki/po'
+>> Rebuilding the pot file
+>> xgettext ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/aggregate.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/brokenlinks.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/camelcase.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/favicon.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/fortune.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/goodstuff.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/googlecalendar.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/haiku.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/html.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/htmltidy.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/inline.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/linkmap.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/map.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/mdwn.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/mirrorlist.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/openid.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/orphans.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/otl.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/pagecount.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/polygen.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/rawhtml.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/shortcut.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/smiley.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/tag.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/template.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/textile.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/toc.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/toggle.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/typography.pm ../IkiWiki/Plugin/wikitext.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/Stub.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/git.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/mercurial.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/svn.pm ../IkiWiki/Rcs/tla.pm ../IkiWiki/Render.pm ../IkiWiki/Setup.pm ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm ../IkiWiki/UserInfo.pm ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm ../ikiwiki.in ../IkiWiki.pm -o ikiwiki.pot -Lperl --add-comments=translators ../IkiWiki/Wrapper.pm:64: invalid variable interpolation at "$"
+>> make[1]: *** [ikiwiki.pot] Error 1
+>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/www/ikiwiki/po'
+>> make: *** [extra_build] Error 2
+>>
+>> harleypig ikiwiki # xgettext --version
+>>
+>> xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.15
+>>
+>> harleypig ikiwiki # perl -v
+>>
+>> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i686-linux
+>>
+>> Sorry about the po/t report ... it was the test file I used to figure out what was wrong and I forgot to remove it. This is against the subversion repository, version 2338.
+>> The referenced line has a $! variable, which the documentation for gettext indicates is the problem.
+
I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page
compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:-
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-# OpenID
-
-I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*=
-
-> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]]
-
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-
-# ACL
-
-> Moved to [[todo/ACL]] --[[Joey]]
-
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-
-Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan
-
-> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]])
-
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-
-Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just
-$config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into
-the template. -- Ethan
-
-> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]]
-
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-
-# Canonical feed location?
-
-Moved to [[todo/canonical_feed_location]] --[[Joey]]
-
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-
# asciidoc or txt2tags ?
Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags?
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-# Disable sub-discussion pages?
-
-Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]]
-
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-
# Access Keys
Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other
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-# Disable build/install requirement on PerlMagick
-
-Some installs of PerlMagick require X11. I tried to first disable using "img" by using "--disable-plugin img"
-in the Makefile. But still failed. My workaround was to remove "img" from the bundle in IkiWiki/Plugin/goodstuff.pm
-before building. What is the recommended way to install ikiwiki without "img" support? --[[JeremyReed]]
-
-> I've fixed this in svn so plugins in goodstuff can be disabled. --[[Joey]]
-
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-
-# Documentation for banning users?
-
-The [[todo]] page says admins can ban users. Where is this documented? I search the source and found
-set\_banned\_users() which led me to the CGI "preferences" form for the admin. Now logged in as an admin (as defined in my setup configuration),
-I see the field for this. But no details on how to use it. From the source it appears to be a space-delimited list of usernames. (I didn't test yet.)
-
-Can you please provide a [[/banned_users]] documentation about "banning" users function linked from the [[Features]] page and maybe [[security]] page and linked from the "preferences" for the admin?
-(I don't do this myself as I am unsure about this and still reading the code about banning users.)
-
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-
-# Documentation for locking pages?
-
-The [[features]] page, the [[todo]] page and the [[usage]] manual page say pages can be locked and only the admin can edit locked pages.
-Where is locking pages documented? ... A moment later, from searching source I found this is configured via the preferences for the admin
-and that links to [[pagespec]].
-
-Can you please provide a [[/page_locking]] doc about locking pages linked from the [[features]] page and elsewhere? And have that link to [[pagespec]]?
-(I don't do this myself as I am unsure about this and still reading the code about locking pages.)
-
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-
# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages?
The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file,
for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion"
or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine.
->> IMHO it's a good idea and I like it. Often I can see changes in
->> any discussion page, but I don't know without clicking the link
->> what discussion was changed.
-
->> However, I can see one problem here. You can commit via command line
->> changes in many pages. It will be displayed ugly then, because probably
->> a width of the RecentChanges page will be greater then a width of
->> user's browser. I hate these pages. So I propose to display a list of
->> changed pages in a column, not in a row. --Pawel
+> Went ahead and did this, IMHO the display is ok as-is. --[[Joey]]
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> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some.
> --[[Joey]]
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-
-# Fall back for templatedir
-
-It would be nice if you didn't have to copy all templates to your custom _templatedir_
-so you only have your customizations there.
-And then have it fall back to the location as configured at build time (like /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates/).
-This would be similar to _underlaydir_. I don't think any extra configuration directive is needed.
-As it is now, RecentChanges will have Perl CGI error and Preferences will be an empty page, if you don't have corresponding templates.
-I can quickly make a patch and submit to the patch queue. Any comments?
+>> Yes, it should be configurable by ikiwiki admin. I believe he's not
+>> stupid and he will not set too short refresh period to kill his server :)
+>> I propose to add `recentchanges_refresh` variable in ikiwiki setup
+>> to setting refresh period. If it's not defined, then ikiwiki doesn't put
+>> refresh meta tag into `recentchanges.tmpl`. Do you like it? ;) --Pawel
-> I'd probably accept a patch immediately. --[[Joey]]
+>>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]]