[ANN] MoinMoin 0.10
Jürgen Hermann
jh@web.de
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:54:28 +0100
A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis
on easy access to and modification of information. MoinMoin is a Python
WikiClone that allows you to easily set up your own wiki, only requiring
a Web server and a Python installation (1.5.2, 1.6 or 2.0).
The most prominent change of this release is a fix for a UNIX time
billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges sorting and page diffs). See
below for a list of new features that were integrated since the last
release. Following version 0.10, there will be some major refactorings
regarding storage and output generation (see TODO for details).
This version is still Python 1.5.2 compatible, but it's not extensively
tested for that version and some parts of the system might not work
there, especially seldom used macros and actions. Bug reports welcome!
Homepage:
http://moin.sourceforge.net/
Download:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8482&release_id=59369
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/moin/
Mailing lists:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-devel
New features:
* "#deprecated" processing instruction
* config entry "SecurityPolicy" to allow for customized permissions
(see "security.py" for more)
* added distutils support
* though not extensively tested, the standalone server now does POST
requests, i.e. you can save pages; there are still problems with
persistent global variables! It only works for Python >= 2.0.
* "bang_meta" config variable and "!NotWikiWord" markup
* "url_mappings" config variable to dynamically change URL prefixes
(especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally
hosted documents move around)
* setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" activates mailing
features (sending login data on the UserPreferences page)
* very useful for intranet developer wikis, a means to view pydoc
documentation, formatted via a XSLT stylesheet, for details see
http://purl.net/wiki/python/TeudViewer?module=MoinMoin.macro.TeudView
or MoinMoin/macro/TeudView.py
* "LocalSiteMap" action by Steve Howell <showell@zipcon.com>
* Added FOLDOC to intermap.txt
Bugfixes:
* Full config defaults, import MoinMoin now works w/o moin_config.py
* Better control over permissions with config.umask
* Bugfix for a UNIX time billenium bug (affecting RecentChanges
sorting and page diffs)
* data paths with directory names containing dots caused problems