I'm curious.

What do you want this application to create? code is law, and creates
social structure. Do you want to encourage one-off, quicks edits by
casual users? Swiki has a lot of features that support this that you
should look at very carefully, for example, not requiring login.

Do you want trees as an overriding structure, or do you want a Swiki
with better support for tree and permissions (which sounds like an
interesting project to me - there're lots of places our swiki's could
benefit from a more obvious tree structure)?

Daniel

Chris Burkert <christian.burkert at s2000.tu-chemnitz.de> 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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