hesco has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

A piece of the web application I'm now building will include some workflow control for collaboration on a document, before its release. It would be sweet to add some wiki-like version control and difference viewing tools into the mix and I went looking for appropriate tools on cpan. But i /wiki/ returned over 500 hits. I just need those two functions, not a lot of additional overhead for this application. That leaves me with two questions:

(1) How can one narrow a command line cpan search;

but more to the point . . .
(2) Any recommendations from the wiki-experienced of what modules would offer me those functions?

All advice appreciated.

-- Hugh

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Re: Need some wiki functionality w/o large overhead
by idsfa (Vicar) on Mar 15, 2006 at 19:45 UTC

    Kwiki is written in perl and very easy to get up and running. CPAN page

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      Just to be clear, I'm not looking for a wiki to install but for a module or two that would provide two small areas of functionality I associate with a wiki:

    • visually present the diff between any two versions of a document
    • tracking versions of a document

      I'd appreciate ideas of how I can do that with __minimal__ overhead. I'd rather not glom on an entire wiki packge for just two small features.

      -- Hugh

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        Then you're focusing on the wrong thing. You want modules that will diff the files for you and an interface to a revision control system:

        Harley J Pig
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