[dokuwiki] Re: about 'search' and wiki syntax tags
- From: chris <jugg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:32:17 -0800
Dokuwiki has all solutions for all problems ;-)
But suffers from a common condition among applications supporting
plugins... The core program is rarely fixed to run sensibly when a
plugin can be written to work around the "problem", leaving
installations "broken" until people discover the "fix".
This is generally lauded for maintaining backwards compatibility... ie.
continue to have new "broken" installations just so old installations
continue to work in the previously expected (but broken) state.
Lesson to learn: Plugins that "fix" a problem with the core application
should never be written. Instead, submit a patch that makes the
application run in a sensible manner, and continually point people to
the submitted patch so that a critical mass pressures the developers to
get it applied.
Whether or not this applies to DokuWiki search is left up to debate.
Personally, I think it is more sensible that a search is performed on
wiki output, since it makes no sense that when I click on the results
link, the search term is nowhere to be found because it only matched the
wiki markup.
Now, the great thing about a pluggable application like DokuWiki is that
these sort of issues *can* be fixed in the correct manner without
breaking the ever so sacred backwards compatibility... ship a plugin
with the core that provides support for the "broken" implementation...
ie a search plugin that supports searching wiki markup as well as the
wiki output but make the core behave sensibly without the plugin.
chris
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