Schuyler D. Erle on Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:31:53 -0400


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Re: Idea: Crossbreed a source code control system and a wiki


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 mjd-perl-pm@plover.com wrote:

> What if the source code for a software package such as Perl or Apache
> HTTPD were derived from a wiki?  Each wiki page would be a function.
> 
> Function calls would be hotlinked to their corresponding pages in the
> wiki.  Documenation would be more wiki pages; comments in the source
> code might link to other wiki pages.

Unless I misunderstood, the only problem I see is that people like to
write code in a text editor or in an IDE, not in a web browser. Other than 
that it sounds like a great idea.

SDE

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