[Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Andrei de A. Formiga]

    Back when people were discussing a community site for OCaml, someone
suggested creating a Wiki for OCaml. I need to second that suggestion: wikis
are good for capturing the collective knowledge of the community in a form
more permanent (and easier to search) than a mailing list, but less rigid
than a static site. I contribute to wikis for other languages and I think
it's a great medium for documentation and discussion. If I had a server I
would gladly donate some space to hosting but alas, I don't have it. I'm
mentioning it again because maybe other people would like to see a wiki as
well, and we could coordinate to find hosting and see who could take on the
admin roles.

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[]s, Andrei de A. Formiga


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Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:41:47PM -0300, Andrei de A. Formiga wrote:
> 
>     Back when people were discussing a community site for OCaml, someone
> suggested creating a Wiki for OCaml. I need to second that suggestion: wikis
> are good for capturing the collective knowledge of the community in a form
> more permanent (and easier to search) than a mailing list, but less rigid
> than a static site. I contribute to wikis for other languages and I think
> it's a great medium for documentation and discussion. If I had a server I
> would gladly donate some space to hosting but alas, I don't have it. I'm
> mentioning it again because maybe other people would like to see a wiki as
> well, and we could coordinate to find hosting and see who could take on the
> admin roles.

Myself and Christophe are going to be setting up a Wiki real soon ...
unfortunately pressure of work has slowed down this, and the other
thing - setting up a GForge repository.

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Olivier Grisel]

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Richard Jones a écrit :
| On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:41:47PM -0300, Andrei de A. Formiga wrote:
|
|>    Back when people were discussing a community site for OCaml, someone
|>    suggested creating a Wiki for OCaml.

It might be my post :o)
http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200405/msg00138.html

| Myself and Christophe are going to be setting up a Wiki real soon ...
| unfortunately pressure of work has slowed down this, and the other
| thing - setting up a GForge repository.

I'm glad you're investing some time and ressources in this project. Let
me please recall my idea to structure the wiki in a way that makes it
easy to setup SIGs or meta-projects.

I quote here my own post :
"""
Another important feature request is the possibility to organise SIGs
(Special Interest Groups) on topics such as crossplatform development,
build systems, networking, XML, databases, Internationalization (UTF-8),
RPC and webservices, GUI, mathematics and logics ... This would help the
OCaml community to struture itself into hierarchicaly specialised
sub-communities with their own mailing-list and wiki pages.
Hopefully it would enable constructive interactions between developers
working on similar projects. A good example of SIGs management is the
Python website :
http://python.org/sigs/
"""

I do really think that the GODI repository + a formal SIG framework will
significantly help organize third party development in a more coherent way.


I look forward to contribute to such a wiki !

Best,
- --
Olivier

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Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 05:04:14PM +0200, Olivier Grisel wrote:
> I'm glad you're investing some time and ressources in this project. Let
> me please recall my idea to structure the wiki in a way that makes it
> easy to setup SIGs or meta-projects.
[...]

I really should devote more time to this :-) Merjis bought a domain,
and a machine, and hosting.  We tried setting up GForge, but the LDAP
configuration was beyond me, and things ground to a halt.

I suppose no one has any objections to using UseModWiki?  It's very
easy to set up.  The alternative would be TWiki, and I know one OCaml
user who is also a core TWiki developer.  However I must admit that
every time I've tried to install TWiki, I've failed.  There isn't any
wiki written in OCaml is there?

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[art yerkes]

> I suppose no one has any objections to using UseModWiki?  It's very
> easy to set up.  The alternative would be TWiki, and I know one OCaml
> user who is also a core TWiki developer.  However I must admit that
> every time I've tried to install TWiki, I've failed.  There isn't any
> wiki written in OCaml is there?

phpwiki is very easy to set up.

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Re: [Caml-list] Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Michael Neumann]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:44:09PM -0500, art yerkes wrote:
> > I suppose no one has any objections to using UseModWiki?  It's very
> > easy to set up.  The alternative would be TWiki, and I know one OCaml
> > user who is also a core TWiki developer.  However I must admit that
> > every time I've tried to install TWiki, I've failed.  There isn't any
> > wiki written in OCaml is there?
> 
> phpwiki is very easy to set up.

Try www.instiki.org. 
Unpack and run it, no configuration files. There's no step three :-)

It includes a webserver and everything else, the only dependency is a
standard installation of Ruby 1.8.1.

And there are some neat features, e.g. categories (not yet integrated,
but available as patch).

Regards,

  Michael

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[Caml-list] Re: Suggestion for an OCaml Wiki

[Julian Brown]

On 2004-05-24, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> There isn't any wiki written in OCaml is there?

This page:

  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines

lists GikiWiki:

  http://wiki.woozle.org/GikiWiki

Though it doesn't look too much like it's of production quality at first
glance.

Julian

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