[wikka-community] Multiple Questions

[Brian Koontz]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 02:03:29PM -0500, Spot wrote:
> We need the ability to store our documentation in svn, and therefore 
> require the ability to store page data in flat files as opposed to the 
> db. Reading page data off the file-system itself, or pushing it into the 
> db only when it changes on disk, doesn't matter. This documentation is 
> for our internal APIs, so load is not a concern. Either will work.
> 
> #1. Is there a module, or external code which provides this kind of 
> functionality? If not, how difficult would this be to hack into the 
> current Wikka structure (I have not had time to look at the Wikka code 
> personally).

This would not be a quick hack, because the DB layer is not abstracted
in Wikka.  I can recommend PmWiki -- I know the author, the software
is sound, and its flat-file based backend is probably more aligned to
what you need.  (Plus it's written in Perl -- very hackable!)

> #3. Is there an API for using external user accounts? If not, is there a 
> way to not require the StrangE UsernameS of our developers?

Not at the moment...this is being worked on, but it probably won't be
done within the timeframe you have.

  --Brian

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Brian Koontz
Wikka Development Team
Systems Support and Random Tasking Dept.