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diff --git a/doc/todo/RecentChanges_page_links_without_cgi_wrapper.mdwn b/doc/todo/RecentChanges_page_links_without_cgi_wrapper.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b37109032 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/RecentChanges_page_links_without_cgi_wrapper.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Links to the changed page on RecentChanges only show up if the cgi wrapper is +enabled. It would be nice if links were also generated on wikis that do not use +the cgi. [[svend]] + +> It would be, but doing so would make updating the recentchanges page for +> each commit a lot slower, or would result in there often being broken +> links there. +> +> The broken links would happen if a page is removed. +> +> The speed issue is that currently each individual change in the +> recentchanges page is built just once, when the change is made, and the +> html for it is reused thereafter. To avoid broken links, it would need to +> regenerate each change's html on each commit. That's 100x the overhead. +> (Perhaps it's possible to be smarter about which need generation tho.) +> +> The best way to approach this that I can see ATM is to use the +> [[plugins/404]] plugin to handle the broken links and then recentchanges +> could avoid explicitly using the CGI. But this doesn't meet your use case +> of having no CGI. +> +> If you're willing to live with broken links to removed pages, I suppose +> that could be made an option.. +> --[[Joey]] + +[[!tag wishlist]] |