Re: New User General Questions

Reini Urban <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:59:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.wiki.phpwiki.talk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2010/3/29 Oliver Betz <[email protected]>:
> Thompson, Steve wrote:
>
>> I've just installed PhpWiki and I like the simplicity. It's version
>> 1.2.11 - do I have the most recent?
>
> that's the most recent so called "stable" version, but it's outdated
> afaik.

1.2 is not being improved, yes. stable and fast as a rock.
but no features at all compared to 1.3

> 1.3 is "current".

yes,
current svn even contains the 1.4 release candidate.
there are just cosmetic changes, a new better sidebar theme, missing.

>> Is this even a supported application. It's hard to tell from the stuff
>> I've found on the web. I found this

sf.net is not being maintained actively.

> there are better supported Wikis out there. Even the demo site
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ is broken since years.

because phpwiki does not run on this setup and we do not have a shell
account anymore..

> I switched to PmWiki for active sites but I have still a PhpWiki
> running with unmaintained content. I'm just too lazy to convert it,
> but at least I listen here to learn about upcoming problems (e.g. PHP
> incompatibilities or security issues).

phpwiki has much more features than those two.

> You might have a look at DokuWiki, too. Somewhat different goals than
> PmWiki's.

You cannot really compare apples with trees.
-- 
Reini Urban
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