X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/3a704c14c0f8fd765df9171b747b2df1993d1adb..836bf625c9de3c7624c2863228662583b634a16f:/doc/roadmap/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/roadmap/discussion.mdwn b/doc/roadmap/discussion.mdwn index 7f712a5a2..0b69867bf 100644 --- a/doc/roadmap/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/roadmap/discussion.mdwn @@ -1 +1,31 @@ - The logo I'm using on my ikiwiki installation. -- Paul Collins \ No newline at end of file +Changing pagespecs to be relative by default is quite feasible now, but it will cause +backwards compatibility problems. Should this be marked as a future plan, perhaps at a +major version number like 2.0? --Ethan + +Yes, I'm looking at making this kind of change at 2.0, added to the list. +However, I have doubts that it makes good sense to go relative by default. +While it's not consitent with links, it seems to work better overall to +have pagespecs be absolute by default, IMHO. --[[Joey]] + +I think after you work with ikiwiki for a while, it "makes more sense" for +them to be absolute, but I definitely remember tripping over absolute +pagespecs a few times when I was just starting out. Thus I think we've +learned to accept it as natural, where a new user wouldn't. + +* bugs, todo, news, blog, users, and sandbox + are all at "toplevel", so they are equivalent whether + pagespecs are absolute or relative. +* soc doesn't refer to any pages explicitly so it doesn't matter +* various plugins have pagespecs at plugins/foo.mdwn: map, linkmap, orphans, + pagecount, pagestats + * I'd say most of these make more sense as having abs. pagespecs + * I note that your sitemap is at toplevel, but there's no reason + not to allow putting it in a special meta/ directory. +* examples/blog and examples/software site need to have relative pagespecs, + but they're pretty special cases -- for a real site those things + will probably be toplevel +* plugins/contrib makes more sense to inline relative (though it doesn't + right now) + +Maybe inline should use relative pagespecs by default, and other plugins +don't? --Ethan