X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/b1ccc0d2976ec93b81e232782fa8401612d23059..8a801dc02d0d259d546c7ee392493bc97bbb1638:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index d409a30e2..fc17ab380 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,8 +5,41 @@ Do so here.. 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 $! variable, which the documentation for gettext indicates is the problem. + I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:- @@ -85,40 +118,6 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). ---- -# OpenID - -I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= - -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# ACL - -> Moved to [[todo/ACL]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - -Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan - -> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]]) - ----- - -Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just -$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]] - ----- - -# Canonical feed location? - -Moved to [[todo/canonical_feed_location]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - # asciidoc or txt2tags ? Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? @@ -184,12 +183,6 @@ Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form ---- -# Disable sub-discussion pages? - -Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]] - ----- - # Access Keys Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other @@ -229,53 +222,13 @@ Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) ---- -# 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]] - ----- - -# 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.) - ----- - -# 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.) - ----- - # 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]] ---- @@ -287,6 +240,14 @@ Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists > I belive that currently it does a redirect to the new static web page. > At least that's the intent of the code. --[[Joey]] +>> Try at your site: `?page=discussion&from=index&do=create` +>> It brings up an empty textarea to start a new webpage -- even though it already exists here. --reed + +>>> Ah, right. Notice that the resulting form allows saving the page as +>>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this +>>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect +>>> thing. --[[Joey]] + ---- # Refreshing RecentChanges page @@ -299,15 +260,10 @@ in WWW browser tab than subscribing to page. --Pawel > Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some. > --[[Joey]] ----- - -# 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]]