Python programs (or other script language) on wiki?

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Ferenc,
all valid points you bring up. MediaWiki is not a development  
platform...

I just think there may be room in the middle somewhere. There may be  
valuable short Python scripts, that are not edited a lot, i.e. the  
danger of editing conflicts is very low.
The overhead of creating a project at projects.om.org or other sites  
is too much.
Copy/paste as a technique will be too hard for many people, how  
exactly do you 'paste' into the phone?

I will try to find out what it would take to make this possible. If  
people prefer other means (projects.om.org etc) to get their stuff on  
the phone we just shut it down again...
But we will never find out unless we try I think, and it should be  
fairly easy to try it out.
I will keep you posted, Best Regards,
Wolfgang

On Sep 20, 2008, at 2:00 AM, Ferenc Veres wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some problems with this idea.
>
> (Hehe, sorry. ;-) )
>
> First, I hate to see programs editable by anyone what I plan to  
> install
> on my operating system. I trust a project repository much more, thank
> public wiki. I guess (didn't check) write access is not automatic  
> after
> registration on the projects tracker.
>
> If the script is 200-500 lines, this applies even more. If it is 20-30
> lines only, it's great to copy/paste to/from the Wiki. I can  
> overview it
> before running.
>
> From Wiki you will have to copy/paste the script for developing it.
> Then you will work for some hours, and when copying back, you may
> overwrite someone else's changes (or someone will overwrite your  
> changes
> the same way). I guess you don't want to develop in the edit field of
> the Wiki. Merging may be much more difficult than with SVN tools.
>
> So I think, longer scripts should be packages, shorter ones could be
> copy/paste. But short and very often used ones should also be  
> packages.
> I hope "Basic End User" (=no config file tweaking) will be able to use
> most basic functions, even if that's done by a small script.
>
> Regards,
> Ferenc
>
>
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