Re: [tlug] wiki

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 19/11/06, bruno raoult <bruno@example.com> wrote:

> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > All wikis face race conditions because everything is
> > editable by anybody (in the traditional wiki configuration).  This
> > means that locking must be done.
>
> I just said that a DB it was not necessary for TLUG.

Some sort of database is required for every wiki. That database could
be implemented as text files, of course.

> Locking or not is not related to the database (as you know for sure).

Locking is but one of the database-like features that wikis need. How
about building and maintaining of link tables? How about indexing
things for fast searching?

All of this could be done with flat files and grep, but why reinvent
the wheel when MySQL / sqlite / PostgreSQL / etc. works just fine?

-Josh