Hi,

Lukas  (and some of us for the design review) is building a really  
powerful wiki named SmallWiki
in VisualWorks (using Swazoo but Comanche can be plugged in too, SIXX  
(available on all platform),
SmaCC (available on all platform). The idea is to start with VW but  
with the idea in mind that it will be
cross platform for the common features.

The idea behind SmallWiki is to have a open and well designed Wiki  
(everything is an object no *^&*^*&^XML string just objects). We  
already have multiple renderer for the look, we have visitors to  
perform all kinds of cool thing (rendreding, checking, glossary...)
We have tests for everything ;).

We were thinking and discuss with Avi to integrate/change to have a  
SeaSide integration.

There will be a first alpha release soon.

So I suggest you to contact lukas to get a pre alpha version: there is  
a good non commercial version and you get a excellent package  
mechanisms.
Lukas is currently working on a primitive storage mechanism, and  
plugging the security model  modeled.
Lukas is expert in Zope so he knows what he do not want to have :)

Lukas could you create a first web page or have a schedule so that alex  
creates a wiki on our wonderful solaris machines. Lukas did a   
presentation but in SmallWiki during the last SqueakNic.
We should have SmallWiki running soon (a week).

We will publish it into the public store repository so everybody will  
be able to have it and
our plans are to integrate (YES YES) integrate extensions people (if  
they are well designed, pass SmallLint and have tests) else you can  
always have your extensions extending SmallWiki.

Note that our intention is to build a synergy around SmallWiki. We will  
also use SmallWiki for the lectures here at Berne and student will  
extend it and the best extensions will be provided.

So if you want to have a look and join forces, just contact lukas

Stef



On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:27 PM, Chris Burkert wrote:

> Hi
>
> I plan to develop a kind of Swiki that is more what I want (nothing  
> against swiki, but it's not really the thing I want :-) I think the  
> best is with commanche.
>
> 1) What would you say is the best starting point (It should be faster  
> than swiki)?
> - start from scratch
> - change the existing swiki
> - build with seaside
>
> 2) What do you say about regular expressions. Is the plugin build in  
> in the default VM or does the admin has to compile a new VM? Then I  
> had to use Streams.
>
> Here's what I want.
> - (Commanche) sessions
> - pages sit in a tree (swiki has a graph structure)
> - userlogin
> - permissions (from user to admin)
> - permissions are bound to a user/page combination and are
>   inherited down the tree.
> - Squeakcode in <squeak> ^'Hello World!' </squeak>
> - only few special characters like
> - ... other points
>
> about users
> - User		can see additional infos
> - Editor	can edit existing pages
> - Author	can create new pages
> - Root		can do everything
> it should be easy to integrate new Userschemes
>
> Regards
>            Chris Burkert
>
> PS: I built something similar in PHP (running on my Homepage) but PHP  
> suckz! So the important question is 1)
> --  
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> Technology
>      http://www.chrisburkert.de/            chris at chrisburkert.de
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> "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have
>  C++ in mind." - Alan Kay --> http://www.whysmalltalk.com/
>
>
>
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  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
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