[Pmwiki-users] Happy WikiTrails to you
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff at pobox.com
Mon Nov 4 17:00:53 CST 2002
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:35:53PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 1. I see Trails and Groups as fundamentally different. Trails define a
> sequence of pages; groups define sets of related pages (which may
> not be in sequence).
Heh, that's almost the same thinking that led me to the thought of
Trails as Groups except that I highlighted the similarities in my
mind rather than the differences. But, I see your point.
> Also, I can imagine multiple intersecting trails, which would be
> difficult to implement by overloading the group structure.
Yep. I hadn't thought of that. Also, I guess if Trails are implemented
as you have them now, you'll have the ability to create Trails that span
multiple Groups, n'est pas?
> 2. I'm trying very hard to avoid distinguishing pages by name patterns;
> I certainly didn't want to introduce it just for this particular feature.
> Nothing else in PmWiki uses page name patterns to distinguish pages.
> I can foresee that people would be surprised when their page semantics
> are suddenly different just because they chose a name that happens to
> coincide with some special feature.
>
> To me, page name patterns are okay as long as they're done by
> convention (e.g., the "*Category" convention used by many wikis)
> and not because they're supported by specific implementation code.
You'd make a good language designer :-)
-Scott
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