Since I first read that joeyh was going to write a wiki engine with a subversion back-end I thought it was a good idea and after the announce that it was going to be usable as a blogging system I was sure that it was going to be something worth looking at (and hopefully learn from).
I have installed the Debian package, but I have not had the time to test it although I've put it on my TODO list, as I'd love to move my blog to use a system like the one ikiwiki uses; I have a lot of things under revision control and moving things like my blog seem a logical next step (probably moving all my home directory comes next, but I need some time to do it and I also need to decide if I will use a centralized or distributed control system or a mix of both).
Anyway it has a couple of problems for me right now:
- It uses MarkDown (looks like a good format, although it is too centred into HTML), but I usually use reStructuredText (all my blog entries are written on .rst files) as it is a good format for reusing text for different purposes and there are tools to generate output formats that cover all my current needs (HTML for web pages, LaTeX/PDF for printing and S5 for presentations).
- It is written in perl. As a user that is not a problem, but I'm not a native speaker and to solve the previous problem I was thinking about adding an rst plug-in to the current code... I'll look at it and see how it can be done, maybe it is simpler than I imagine and it is just a matter of calling the rst2html script and I can do it while keeping my perl knowledge low... ;)
Well, I'll test the current system and to see if I have to fill a wishlist bug against ikiwiki asking for reStructuredText support.
