NEWS for WIKID


- 1.2 | 2007-10-03

  - License now GPLv3+ (see COPYING)

  - Now uses module (database gnudbm) instead of (database gdbm)

	See README for full list of required modules, along with the
	packages that provide them (essentially: Guile and ttn-do).

  - Config paramater `port' extended

	This can be a number, as before, to specify a port for AF_INET
	INADDR_LOOPBACK sockets; or a string, to specify a filename for
	AF_UNIX sockets (the daemon will create and remove the socket
	file as necessary).

  - New wikid-admin command: display-start-url

  - New pre-install command: check-wikid

	You can use this script to play w/ WIKID before actually
	installing it.  See its Commentary for usage details.

  - Maintenance uses GNU Automake 1.9.6 and GNU Autoconf 2.61


- 1.1 | 2004-01-27

  - Now uses module (database gdbm) instead of (gdbm gdbm)

	This is to track guile-gdbm 0.2.x and later:
	<http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/guile-gdbm/>

  - Installation uses "install-info" to update the dir file

  - Installation updates $(GUILE_SITE)/.module-catalog (if supported)


- 1.0 | 2002-11-04

  - Pages have "render stamp" at bottom

	This is not the same as a update stamp, although it's likely to
	be close if whoever did the last page edit looks at the page
	very soon after the edit (say, due to the automatic refresh).

  - Docs include a section on ideas to improve WIKID



- 0.85 | 2002-10-26

  - User visible changes

	Nestable "star lists" are now supported.  See info page
	"(wikid)User" for details.

  - Administrative changes

	The "start" and "stop" commands to wikid-admin now do a little
	more sanity checking based on the existence of the PID file.
	Previously, doing two starts would result in "port busy" error
	(or similar), now the error is "pid file exists".

  - More signals handled

	The daemon now also handles SIGINT, SIGQUIT and SIGALRM, in
	addition to SIGHUP ("wikid-admin stop" uses SIGHUP).  The
	handling is also more clean; to ensure (encourage) associated
	ports and sockets to be closed properly, global bindings are
	reset and a gc is done prior to exit.

  - Performance improvement

	Pages rendered from wikid-text db entries are now cached in
	core.  Total daemon response time now approximately 1-2 ms,
	roughly two orders of magnitude speed-up over non-caching
	operation.  (Test box: 200MHz Pentium Pro w/ flaky SDRAMs and
	a dead power-supply fan. :-)


- 0.84 | 2002-10-23

  - New configuration variables

	`log-file' specifies where to write the log (instead of to
	stdout as previously).

	`pid-file' specifies where to write the PID of daemon.

  - New wikid-admin commands

	These are documented in the manual, the latter three under
	section "daemon control":

	  wikid-admin create-config FILE
	  wikid-admin -C CONFIG-FILE start
	  wikid-admin -C CONFIG-FILE stop
	  wikid-admin -C CONFIG-FILE status

	The manual now also has a cursory explanation of the "wref"
	markup item used when editing a page.

  - `recvfrom!' workaround

	In some versions of guile `recvfrom!' does not guarantee
	internal cache (scm_addr_buffer in libguile/socket.c)
	consistency.  The workaround (in wikid.cgi) is to call
	`getsockname' immediately prior to `recvfrom!'.  Casual
	testing shows no discernable performance impact.


- 0.83 | 2002-10-10

	WIKID administration and operation is now encapsulated by
	"wikid-admin", installed in $bindir and documented in the
	(newly provided) wikid.info pages.  Each WIKID instance is
	controlled by a configuration file which specifies dispatch
	URL frag, TCP port number, max message size, location of
	the CGI and the directory where run-time inforation is to
	be kept.

	The example wikid.conf in the distribution should be easy
	to adapt (i.e., w/ minimal changes) for the typical Debian
	GNU/Linux setup.

	Also, configuration is now more precise about looking for
	dependencies and signalling error if they are not met.


- 0.81 | 2001-10-04
  - wikid
    - accepts "index" command, returns index page
    - new namespace: "extra links" (aka "external links")
    - now supports adding pages
    - now supports changing empty pages into an extra link
    - bugfix: all CRLF converted to LF
  - wikid-admin
    - "index" displays index page
    - "init-db" and "dump-db-as-seed" support extra links


- 0.7 | 2001-09-21
  - wikid only accepts connections from localhost
  - upon update, results page now has redirect and link
  - source under version control (finally ;-)
  - edit-page form textarea now sized according to the text
  - wikid now displays transaction handler timing (in seconds)
  - db backend no longer hard-coded, uses guile-gdbm
  - new program included: wikid-admin
  - some (unpolished texi) documentation now available


- 0.6 | 2001-09-17

	Initial public release.


- 0.5 | 2001-09-16


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