8 Sep
2015
8 Sep
'15
10:54 a.m.
I was thinking that one of the outputs of the flat files would be a feed that updates a
Wiki so you can easily search it..
Then .HLP files for VMS and other systems.
sampsa
On 8 Sep 2015, at 08:34, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/09/2015 00:57, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yeah, that should be doable.
Doesn't even need to be a database, just an agreed markup structure and files..
Then just convert them to whatever format you want.
Using flat files makes it less easy to search and query the data, and also potentially
makes the data structure less flexible for future applications, but it is easier to host
and transport. Kind of. But please, no XML. It makes my ears bleed.
I'd love to do a Python/Django/PostgreSQL project with a set of output scripts but I
have no Django-friendly hosting that could be reliably internet-facing available (only
LAMP and frankly I'm starting to dislike PHP more and more). A
I tried goofing with MediaWiki a while back but found it to be... well not to my taste.
It's a useful tool but it's not the right one for this IMHO, I think outputting
Wiki data to files for various OSs might be a bit of a bear.
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