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Date: 2003-10-21 20:10:10 GMT

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State of MediaWiki

Last tarball release on sourceforge was 2003-08-29. This is functional, 
but stable branch has changed a bit since then. A new tarball should be 
released in the next few days once  some code is cleaned up.

To check out the stable release from anonymous CVS:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous <at> cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia login
(hit enter)
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous <at> cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia co 
-r stable phase3

(Note that SourceForge's anonymous CVS server lags about a day behind 
the developers' CVS server.)

-- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)

Make math error

While trying to install Phase 3 using mediawiki-20030829 I had the
following error while making math:

[colorado <at> tribal math]$ ls
CVS       html.ml    mathml.mli       tex.mli      texvc_cgi.ml
Makefile  html.mli   parser.mly       texutil.ml   texvc_test.ml
README    lexer.mll  render.ml        texutil.mli  util.ml
TODO      mathml.ml  render_info.mli  texvc.ml

[colorado <at> tribal math]$ make
ocamlopt -c util.ml
ocamlc -c render_info.mli
ocamlc -c tex.mli
ocamlyacc parser.mly
ocamlc -c parser.mli
ocamlopt -c parser.ml
ocamlc -c html.mli
ocamlopt -c html.ml
ocamlc -c mathml.mli
ocamlopt -c mathml.ml
ocamlc -c texutil.mli
ocamlopt -c texutil.ml
ocamlopt -c render.ml
ocamllex lexer.mll
187 states, 3221 transitions, table size 14006 bytes
ocamlopt -c lexer.ml
ocamlopt -c texvc.ml
ocamlopt -o texvc unix.cmxa util.cmx parser.cmx html.cmx mathml.cmx
texutil.cmx render.cmx lexer.cmx texvc.cmx
ocamlopt -c texvc_test.ml

Re: [Wikitech-l] installing mediawiki

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 14:02 US/Pacific, Tomoaki Watanabe wrote:
> Hi. I and others are trying to install a mediawiki into iBiblio's 
> server for a project, and I would like to get some help.
>
> It seems that installation requires command-line php, which is not 
> available at their server.
>
> Is there any quick work-around that I am missing? Or is this the way 
> it is? (Or am I simply wrong?) I would appreciate any input.

As a workaround for the installer script, you can do it manually. I'm 
assuming you've got a way of running batch SQL commands, either through 
the mysql command-line client or through some administrative tool such 
as phpMyAdmin.

First, create the database:
CREATE DATABASE wikidb;
(or whatever you'd like to name it)

into this database run the table creation SQL scripts, which are in the 
maintenance subdirectory: tables.sql and indexes.sql. These create an 
empty wiki database.

You may wish to create a separate MySQL user for the wiki, if so adapt 
users.sql to the username and password you want to use and run that on 
the table as a MySQL user with administrative privs.

Put wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml into the destination install 
directory. You can put the rest of the .php files there if you like (as 
the installer does), but I prefer to put them in a separate directory 

Re: Make math error

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 05:22 US/Pacific, Fred Bauder wrote:
> While trying to install Phase 3 using mediawiki-20030829 I had the
> following error while making math:
[snip]
> ocamlopt -o texvc_tex util.cmx parser.cmx html.cmx mathml.cmx 
> texutil.cmx
> lexer.cmx texvc_tex.cmx
> Cannot find file texvc_tex.cmx
> make: *** [texvc_tex] Error 2

Hmm, the obvious thing to ask is which version of ocaml and on what OS 
you're working. I've had no trouble compiling it with ocaml 3.06 on Red 
Hat Linux 7.2/8.0/9.0 (installed from source), FreeBSD 5.1 (ocaml from 
ports; use 'gmake' to build texvc) or MacOS X (via fink, used regular 
make).

-- brion vibber (brion  <at>  pobox.com)

Re: [Wikitech-l] installing mediawiki

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 14:02 US/Pacific, Tomoaki Watanabe wrote:
> Hi. I and others are trying to install a mediawiki into iBiblio's 
> server for a project, and I would like to get some help.
>
> It seems that installation requires command-line php, which is not 
> available at their server.
>
> Is there any quick work-around that I am missing? Or is this the way 
> it is? (Or am I simply wrong?) I would appreciate any input.

As a workaround for the installer script, you can do it manually. I'm 
assuming you've got a way of running batch SQL commands, either through 
the mysql command-line client or through some administrative tool such 
as phpMyAdmin.

First, create the database:
CREATE DATABASE wikidb;
(or whatever you'd like to name it)

into this database run the table creation SQL scripts, which are in the 
maintenance subdirectory: tables.sql and indexes.sql. These create an 
empty wiki database.

You may wish to create a separate MySQL user for the wiki, if so adapt 
users.sql to the username and password you want to use and run that on 
the table as a MySQL user with administrative privs.

Put wiki.phtml and redirect.phtml into the destination install 
directory. You can put the rest of the .php files there if you like (as 
the installer does), but I prefer to put them in a separate directory 

C++ parser : progress report

My C++ parser is now a working offline browser. This is achieved by 
converting a mysql dump of the cur table into an sqlite database once, 
then using apache/php as a frontend and a php file calling the compiled 
C++ executable, which renders HTML on-the-fly. Browse using your 
favourite browser 

Why bother with this, if a static HTML version would do the same?
* Proof-of-principle
* sqlite databases can be changed, allowing for edits
* Encapsuled database object, can be easily switched to use mysql or any 
other database instead of sqlite for use on a website
* Full-text search (which I'll implement next)

Some things that bug me:
* Is there an easy way to call an executable directly from apache, 
without the need for a PHP script in-between?
* Is there a no-setup-needed web browser? Some .exe that I can start on 
a windows machine, then fire up the web browser, and view/edit my local 
wikipedia copy?

Magnus

Re: [Wikitech-l] C++ parser : progress report

On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 03:09 US/Pacific, Magnus Manske wrote:
> My C++ parser is now a working offline browser. This is achieved by 
> converting a mysql dump of the cur table into an sqlite database once, 
> then using apache/php as a frontend and a php file calling the 
> compiled C++ executable, which renders HTML on-the-fly. Browse using 
> your favourite browser 

Neat!

> Why bother with this, if a static HTML version would do the same?
> * Proof-of-principle
> * sqlite databases can be changed, allowing for edits
> * Encapsuled database object, can be easily switched to use mysql or 
> any other database instead of sqlite for use on a website
> * Full-text search (which I'll implement next)
* eliminate filesystem overhead of a hojillion tiny files

Pack source plus ready-to-run executables for Windows, Linux/x86, and 
Mac, and this could be handy.

> Some things that bug me:
> * Is there an easy way to call an executable directly from apache, 
> without the need for a PHP script in-between?

CGI? Turn it into an Apache module to run in-process?

> * Is there a no-setup-needed web browser? Some .exe that I can start 
> on a windows machine, then fire up the web browser, and view/edit my 
> local wikipedia copy?