FW: WikiTool vs. case of undefined links

Hi!

I just forwarded a more detailed bug description from Dave about the stray
link resolving and page creation in the WikiTool. Maybe if Garth shows
someday, he might want to look at that one. For the meantime it might be a
good idea to just not change IDs after page creation :-)

bye, Georg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David W. Talmage [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:26 PM
> To: Bauer, Georg
> Subject: Re: [Pyds-dev] WikiTool vs. case of undefined links 
> 
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >> I think this is a bug in the WikiTool.  It doesn't respect 
> the case of
> >> undefined links.
> >
> >Nah, it's not a bug, it's a (weird) feature :-)
> >
> >The IDs for pages are "munged" from the linked text. If you 
> put `this is a
> >stray link`_ in your post, you will get a wiki node id of 
> thisisastraylink.
> >And the same as the title (ok, I _think_ the latter one is a 
> bug, but didn't
> >bother to check how to solve it - it's a bit complicated, as 
> only the munged
> >ID is passed along currently).
> 
> Here's what I see happening:
> 
> 1. I make a stray link, FooBar_, on some wiki page.
> 2. I follow the stray link and get the opportunity to make a 
> page for it.
>    PyDS suggests foobar as the ID.
> 3. I change the ID to FooBar and continue to create and save 
> the FooBar page.
> 4. PyDS respects FooBar.  Its page will be FooBar.html.
> 
> If, instead, I leave the ID as foobar, its page will be foobar.html.
> When I change the ID to FooBar, I get a new FooBar.html page 
> but the old
> foobar.html remains on PyCS.  FooBar_ still resolves to foobar.html.
> 
>