Hi,
Last time I took a look it was not so easy to install as for example Kwiki.
But of course, Socialtext is more optimized and is faster, but it enforces more specific requirements,webserver, mod_perl, etc..., on the other side, Kwiki only need normal perl cgi support and tries to be as much flexible as possible via the Plugins framework... so in my opinion Kwiki is still an option for small-medium sized enterprise wikis. I hope Ingy and Gugod have enough time to code Kwiki 2.0 ;-)
Curiously both work for Socialtext :-D
Regards,
fmerges at irc.freenode.net
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Unfortunately, Kwiki still is the easiest software to install. I installed Socialtext in a Debian VMWare Player box, and the only way I got it to succeed was by adding the Socialtext repository and installing all packages from there. Using the Debian-provided packages or the CPAN-provided packages didn't work out. I cannot recommend installing the plethora of prerequisites into a Perl installation that will be used for other stuff, as there are some Perl packages that need to be force-installed.
On the upside, in the end I got a working image of a "drop-in" machine that will supply a very nice and functional wiki, but the VMWare image is 400MB, so I haven't put it up for download yet.
The script I used to do the download/installation of Socialtext currently lives at http://datenzoo.de/pub/install-opentext.txt, but it carries some cruft that could be removed I think. I will likely look at the script in the next few days and clean it up some more, and then post it in this node or as a reply here.
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Unfortunately, there are dependencies on external libraries which are not under the confines of Perl, like libexpat, libxml2 and ImageMagick, all of which present a hazard to a Perl used in production. Of course, if you don't need to upgrade any of these external libraries, you'll be fine.
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In my practice installation simplicity is the most desireful feature.
Quite often you just do not have admin access to server and, for example, database or huge dependancy tree of CPAN modules are often show-stoppers for me.
That's why http://www.usemod.com is the best one Perl-based wiki :)
but even better is the two-file based wikit
What is the dependance tree of Socialtext, BTW?
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