[pmwiki-users] potential conflict notice: WikiCalendar and publish

IchBin weconsultants at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 12:27:33 CDT 2007


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:19:37PM +0200, ThomasP wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just had a look at the WikiCalendar code and saw quite a few occurrences of
>>
>> $action == 'publish'
>>
>> in it. It does not seem however that these references have anything to do
>> with the new Pmwiki publish functionality. There is quite a chance here
>> that this might develop into a conflict in the long run.
> 
> Actually, I don't have any intent of creating ?action=publish in
> the core, so we're likely pretty safe.  This is also a case where
> "?action=publish" in WikiCalendar _far_ predates anything I ever
> did with publishing -- I believe it was first created in 2003 
> (and perhaps even 2002).  
> 
>> Related to this I would like to kick off a reminder once again in case
>> some are planning to write recipes or are just publishing them:
>>
>> It is useful to
>>
>> a) either make sure that all functions and variables in "public contact"
>> (i.e. directly interacting with pmwiki) are defined in a recipe specific
>> way, i.e. with prefixes
> 
> Yes, a very good idea.
> 
>> b) to inform about what you have used such that the pmwiki commnunity can
>> get aware of it. (A good page for actions is PmWiki.AvailableActions for
>> example, where all pmwiki actions but also (hopefully all) recipe actions
>> are listed.)
> 
> Also, a good idea, however, I'm not sure that recipe actions belong in
> PmWiki.AvailableActions.  I think I'd rather have a 
> Cookbook.AvailableActions for that (and it could go ahead and
> list the core actions as well).
> 
> Pm

Possibly better to just make a reference upfront on the 
Cookbook.AvailableActions page about the PmWiki.AvailableActions and not 
embed them on the same page.  Things, for me at least, would be clear 
and that they are two distinction class of animals.





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