It's very easy to make an older Swiki into an UploadSwiki.  But there are a
bunch of caveats here.

- Currently, UploadSwikis are a great way to trash a server.  We didn't
know if this was a Mac-only problem until we set up an UploadSwiki on a
Linux box and someone tried to upload the 25M QuickTime Star Wars trailer.
Kablam!  Server goes into a tight loop in ConnectionQueue>>listen and we
can't stop it.  Anything more than 300K is risky.  For Smalltalk code, it's
not a big deal.

- UploadSwikis sometimes lose things.  Bolot Kerimbaev (who wrote
UploadSwikis) and I have played with uploading AIFF files and had them fail
fairly reliably on both Mac and Linux servers.  We haven't figured out the
exact conditions under which the upload gets corrupted.

That said, we use UploadSwikis a lot.  We just have to reboot our servers
alot, too.

It was in trying to improve the UploadSwikis that Bolot started his
re-write of PWS, which he calls Comanche.  Commanche now exists, and Jochen
Rick is trying to write Swikis for Commanche now.

Bottomline: We can make the Squeak Swiki an UploadSwiki, but it may make
the server less reliable.  In the medium term (say, by this Fall),
Commanche should be available that we can try to move to that.

Mark

>I found the link on upload Swikis at:
>http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.481
>
>Try it out - it's really cool. The actual upload swiki is at:
>http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/myswiki.229
>
>I just uploaded a gif to the upload swiki, and then did a bit of editing and
>linked to it from the non-upload swiki! (there is now a new screenshots link
>on the front page).
>
>This is a great thing, which we should start using ASAP. For sharing code
>change sets and collaborating on projects, this is perfect. The change set
>can be attached directly to the swiki page describing the project. This may
>help prevent the scattering of Squeak stuff all over the web.
>
>How difficult will it be to make the main Swiki page an upload server?
>
>Peter


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