Thaddeus L Olczyk wrote:
> 
> I've discovered a bug in the latest version of swiki ( BigTime ).
> 
> I'll describe the browser panes left to right to show the methods
> involved and let people find it for themselves.
> 
> System-Support|Preferences|standard queries|(keepAliveConnection and
> standaloneServer ).
> In both method the last line reads
> ifAbsent: [false].
> delete these two lines and the Swiki works.
> Otherwise the Swiki wiki fails to serve up pages ( except for the
> Lynx browser ).

Well, this doesn't seem to be a bug on Comanche 4.10 /Swiki 1.1. (that's
to say, it doesn't seem to impeed anything).


> 
> Suggestion which I hope does not get interpreted as a rant.
> I was using  Squeak 3.0 to run this. From the web page
> where I downloaded this swiki it said that either this was version
> 3.1 of the swiki or this swiki needed the 3.1 version of Squeak.
> Unfortunately I was unable to find the 3.1 version of Squeak
> ( which is probably downloadable from some CVS archive ).
> It maybe that the method isAbsent: is implemented in the 3.1
> version of Preferences. If so then most people can't use it since
> the last stable version of Squeak is 3.0.

I don't see it as a rant, but wondered why you didn't download ComSwiki
as a complete package, rather than just the Swiki stuff. Works fine for
me with Netscape, Konqueror and Amaya -- even StarOffice (I've yet to
try it with Lynx).

If you want 3.1 (which is now beta and very nearly finished) it is out
there. And it is generally a big step forward on 3.0. 

Drop me a line off list and I'll point you to the source for your
platform (I guess Linux, but.....)
> 
> I've tried to use ( for the most part successfully, but occasionally
> I didn't have the time to put in the effort ) swiki several times,
> and it always seemed to be the same situation: the squeak version
> runs one behind the version of squeak needed by swiki.

See above about getting ComSwiki

> 
> Perhaps it would be a good idea to make available several older
> versions of swiki rather than just the most recent ( since that's
> all that I could find ). Then people can just match the versions
> as they wish.

Aaargh!!!

I think this would create more confusion/chaos/work/bad tempers than
it's worth!

Cheers

John



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