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Version 2.0 RC is out
January 30th, 2007 by Dario Solera | Filed under Development.I just uploaded the Release Candidate for version 2.0.
This time we’re going to do things in a more “classical” way. RC is really a Release Candidate, not just a generic pre-release build: we’ll only fix bugs and complete the translations. Version 2.0 should ship, as I said in a couple of posts ago, around 15 Feb. The biggest task to complete is to write the online documentation: the new configuration options, new CSS elements, new features must be completely described before the final version ships. It’s a matter of respect for the users.
BTW, we’re receiving no feedback at all about the Plugin Pack, so I assume that no one is actually using it. I also assume that it works perfectly.
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I guess the reason for no comments on the plugin pack is bacause there really isn’t much interesting stuff in it. Sure the SQL Server plugin could be interesting, but I am not aware of a host, at least in Denmark, who supports SQL Server at a resonable price, which makes that plugin irellevant for me. I have never had a SQL Server available at any of my hosts, only MySql.
The Sandbox plugin is not really interesting for deployment sites, which I recon most users are using the Wiki for, so it has no real use.
The multilanguage pack is a clever feature, but since it only supports the languages installed in the Wiki, I have no use for it. I would rather have a special Wiki-tag that I can insert on a page in which I could write the languages the specific page is in. In that way a drop-down-box could appear with the languages I have translated the page into. This could perhaps be a persistent choice across pages, if the languages were in the standard language-formatting (en-US, en-UK, da-DK etc.)
Just a few comments there
I am happy with the SQL Server plugin.
Two things I am not happy with:
1). The plugin pack is not so useful for achieving my goal of single-sign-on with Windows Integrated Authentication. This is essential for a corporate intranet environment. I still have to hack Session_Start() in global.asax to achieve this. All that is needed to fix this problem is providing more events on which plugins can hook into.
2). I wish the wiki settings were stored in either a proper .config file or SQL, instead of those confusing/ambiguous .cs files.
Perhaps you should take a quick look at Community Server, another rich .NET application that handles these two points much better
1) Other users achieved the same goal by creating a Users Provider and adding a couple of lines in the file Login.aspx.cs – try to search the forums.
Anyway, a little modification of the plugin architecture is planned already.
2) We use .cs files to AVOID the need to manually edit config files.
Anyway, the Config.cs file just contains a bunch of key-value pairs, so it’s very easy to edit them, if you know what they mean.
Community Server and DNN are very powerful, but they are developed by many people and since some years ago. ScrewTurn Wiki is less than one year old.
I discovered ScrewTurnWiki this afternoon and was playing around with the 2.0 RC. I modified the SQL Server Users provider to work with the default ASP.NET Membership provider. I know you guys are smart enough to figure that one out… Nevertheless, are you guys interested in minor contributions like that and make it part of the standard distro?
Hi Gerd, thanks for the interest.
I’m sorry, but we don’t want to include the development external people, due to the fact that our experience tells us that it’s not a good choice. In other words, we’re having troubles with external developers in this period…
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