[Xapian-discuss] xapian wiki

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:34:56PM +0100, Dobrica Pavlinusic wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:14:49PM +0000, James Aylett wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:50:42PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> > 
> > > If I (or someone else doing development work) writes code for a new
> > > feature on a laptop or other non-networked machine, then we can't easily
> > > add corresponding documentation as we write the code.
> > 
> > We could always move from SVN to git or similar. I doubt hooks into
> > the resync process to repopulate the wiki would be horrendously
> > difficult, either.

That would only help if the wiki acted as a client of the VCS much like
any other developer.  The actual VCS isn't really an issue (although a
VCS built for distributed use might make merging changes made via the
wiki easier).

> I would suggest to try out svk http://svk.elixus.org/ which solves
> problem of distributed off-line development without changing svn for
> something else.

I actually already use svk!

Cheers,
    Olly