On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:16:56AM +0200, Timwi wrote:
the past few days I've been experimenting a bit
with Apache, mod_perl,
MySQL and creating an entire own website. I've never done that before,
and I think I've learnt a lot from this.
Now, for some reason, against all of your advice, I have started to
program a Wiki, and by now it's already become a suitable basis for a
Phase-IV Wikipedia software, including a database schema.
It really doesn't seem to be very difficult to re-program the current
software in Perl, this time taking all the problems into account and
designing everything right from the start (incl. single-login,
multi-language watchlists, a better translation system and skin system
(separated from the code), etc.) I've also made a lot of considerations
and decisions with respect to database design and performance.
Should I continue with this?
While I'm much more a Perl guy than a PHP guy, I strongly advice against it.
With very small error it can be said that rewriting software is NEVER a
good idea. Forget your ego for a moment and code your ideas as patches
to existing codebase - this way everyone's going to benefit most.