At 7:01 PM +1100 2/27/05, Tim Churches wrote:
Is it too late to ditch TWiki and swap to MoinMoin, which is a wiki
written in Python rather than Perl? We use MoinMoin at work and
although it doesn't have as many features as Twiki, it is
trouble-free and also, for Pythonistas, the source code
understandable. It is siple enough that the entire source can be
examined in less than an hour, if you are keen (um, I skimmed through
it...).
This discussion last came up around December after hherb.com had been
hacked.
I don't think it would be a matter of "too late". Not a lot has been
invested in anything that is "TWiki specific". I understand "TWiki
forms" to be a big advantage but I have so far lacked the technical
comfort to get them going. So only if someone else got it going with
us having significant investment would it be more of a problem.
Mainly (I think) it was that David Grant was familiar enough to get
TWiki installed originally, then he and Karsten installed it at
hherb.com which was hacked through its vulnerability (Horst has
himself used TikiWiki being more sure of its security... it is however
written in php). Then Carlos and David installed / set up TWiki at
salaam.
If someone were to set up MoinMoin I would happily invest what time I
can to get a bit more familiar with it. If someone deciphered its
directory structure (maybe creating a Gnumed web within it) it could
be tried copying the existing pages from TWiki and we could see what
results. But the opening of this paragraph were key (as it is with
this project in general): "If someone were to set up..."
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