CLiki 0.4.3 is now in cCLan

Tue, 11 May 2004 18:16:15 +0100

CLiki 0.4.3 is now in cCLan. 

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Subject: ANN: CLiki 0.4.3
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From: Daniel Barlow 
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CLiki 0.4.3 is now in cCLan.  This is approximately the version that’s
been running on www.cliki.net for the past few months.


New in CLiki 0.4.3


    
	
  • Versioning!  At the expense of making the file names correspond even
  less closely with the page title, we now produce a version per edit.
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  • While indexing we collect the first sentence of each page, and
  make it accessible as (CLIKI-FIRST-SENTENCE page)
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  • Legacy searches now print this out.
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  • Beginning of the long slow process to separate generic cliki engine
  stuff from www.cliki.net stuff: new cliki-net class that you
  probably don’t want to use unless you’re me
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  • Indexing tweaks mean startup on big clikis may be a bit faster.
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  • Bug fixes: RSS generation, topic searches.
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  • *(Uncategorized) marker added to default text for new pages.
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Note that there is also an internals change which you may run into if
you are building cliki-based tools: to make backlink searches and
updating simpler, CLIKI-PAGE objects are now created when references
to non-existent pages are encountered during indexing.  These
placeholder pages have NIL :pathname and :versions slots.


(You can see this behaviour in action at http://www.cliki.net/Dan%20Moniz,
at lease until/unless someone creates that page)


This means that if you want to detect whether a page /really/ exists,
you should not just rely on find-page returning NIL, but also 
test the pathname slot.