On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:59:31PM +0100, David Reynolds wrote:
Chris,
On 29 May 2007, at 9:42 pm, Chris G wrote:
Yes, I've spent much of today hunting around and haven't found anything that really fits what I want.
I'm leaning towards using a wiki (which does the data and linking side of things fairly well) and finding one that has a calendar plugin. I'm sold on the idea of using some sort of markup language for the text entry so that I can use a familiar editor (vile in my case, a vi clone) to enter the text. The basic text files are readable as they are (especially with reStructured Text for example) and even better as web pages.
I have Mozex installed on Firefox so I can get to use vile even with wikis that aren't adapted to editing their files directly.
That leaves finding a wiki with a reasonable calendar plugin.
Since you have a very clear idea about what you are after and have been unable to find the software to fulfil your criteria, why not have a go at writing something yourself, or at least hacking on something that *nearly* does what you want and making it do exactly what you want? This is the joy of open source software! I seem to remember that you have a fairly good grounding in various programming languages, so this seems like the ideal thing to.
Yes, I think that may well be what I end up doing. I'm getting slowly more familiar with Python which I find easier to work with (having a C/Java sort of background) than Perl or PHP. I have already added some odds and sods to Rest2Web and it could be that further additions to that will give me what I want, or I may find a Python wiki and add bits to that.