[Pmwiki-users] Call For Directory Simplicity

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Fri Feb 13 12:01:45 CST 2004


Is there anyone that prefers "local.php" over "config.php"?  
If not then I'll add config.php to the list of included files 
and start changing documentation to match.

Pm

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:21:26PM -0300, Andres Yver wrote:
> Patrick,
> The local directory is well named. It's the local.php file which seems 
> to me to be better named config.php, since that is what it does, it 
> configures your wiki. You had suggested shipping a sampleconfig.php at 
> the root level with instructions to copy it to local/config.php. That 
> makes a lot of sense.
> Others had mentioned the typical unix directories for configs, but i'm 
> willing to bet that _most_ future wikians won't come from a strong unix 
> background, so those names might to them be meaningless.
> The scripts directory also has a non-intuitive name for the layman. 
> What do they know about scripts? They just want the product to work out 
> of the box and then to be able to make mods as their knowledge 
> increases. I suggest something like utilities, which is what to my 
> newbie eyes, it contains.
> cheers,
> Andres
> 
> On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 01:58 PM, 
> Pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
> 
> >I don't have any plans to greatly alter PmWiki's 0.6's directory 
> >structure
> >unless I hear a *lot* of call to change it.  I might consider changing
> >local to config, but "config" sounds incorrect to me because the 
> >directory
> >is really a place to hold local scripts, which may or may not be
> >"configuration".
> 
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