[ewiki] project still alive, -rc3 ready, future changes

(hereby a short status update for everybody who might think ewiki
was already dead)

There is a new tarball "-rc3", which I hope to get out next week.
While there is actually a long list of changes, development really
was slow and only few of the real problems were solved. Among the
interesting changes however are:

 - new plugin *.meta data files
 - with a "tools/setup" console utility
 - basic WebDAV access support
 - more anti-spam plugins (mostly work now)
 - separate doc/ directory with smaller info chunks
 - a few bugfixes

I'd especially appreciate feedback on the setup tool. It will
probably only work under Linux, but it's cool enough to warrant
special mentioning. If the *.meta files are too annoying we
could eventually merge that back into the plugin *.php scripts
later (just demand that if you feel like).

http://erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net/downloads/ewiki-R1.02b-rc3.tgz
(for testing only. do not sell!! :)


In the next development cycle (shorter, hopefully) there'll be
a few changes that could make ewiki partially incompatible from
the current (no database break, just file structure and usage).

 - CoreSplit: the current monolithic 130K core script is hardly
   manageable, and the next version therefore won't be an
   all-in-one script anymore (but could be assembled back again)
 - gettext support: the old ewiki_t() will be removed in favor
   of standard .po files - easier and more complete translations,
   yet means less memory use and clutter for English-only setups
   (all-PHP compatible, because we'll have an gettext-emulation
   as fallback)

Once the core script is split and cleaned up a bit, then there's
a better chance to address the pending tasks and more important
changes.


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