CLiki 0.4.3 is now in cCLan#

Tue, 11 May 2004 17:16:15 +0000

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.
 While indexing we collect the first sentence of each page, and
  make it accessible as (CLIKI-FIRST-SENTENCE page)
 Legacy searches now print this out.
 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  
 Indexing tweaks mean startup on big clikis may be a bit faster.  
 Bug fixes: RSS generation, topic searches.
 *(Uncategorized) marker added to default text for new pages.

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.