Re: [Chicken-users] Rewriting Svnwiki in Java or PHP

[Nelson Castillo]

> I'm not sure whether the contributions would increase significantly.
> Most free software projects depend on a very small number of developers.
>
> > We are considering rewriting it in either Java or PHP.  I'm leaning
> > more towards Java but a very good case for PHP has been made by
> > Arhuaco.  We have also considered Python, Ruby and C#.
>
> The disadvantage of svnwiki is that it depends on Subversion. Currently
> Adamantix uses Wiliki, which is written in Guache Scheme. It is perhaps
> not the best Wiki out there. But it is install and forget. I would switch
> to svnwiki because it has more features and is under active development
> (and because it runs on Chicken). I don't know if I would contribute,
> because I am still not a very good Scheme programmer. Most free software
> projects only have a few people who do most of the work.

That's why I think we should use PHP instead.

  Whether I like it or not, I must admit that those difficult cumbersome
 functional programming techniques have turned off a lot of prospective
 contributors. Understanding the PHP tricks you have to do to overcome
 the limitations of the language is easier than learning the functional
 programming stuff.

 This way, even junior programmers with little programming knowledge could help
 us grow the number of lines of code that Svnwiki currently has.

 http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/arhuaco/svnwiki-in-php

I'd also settle for Java, but I think that PHP would be better.

Regards,
Nelson.-





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