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diff --git a/doc/todo/fileupload/soc-proposal/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/fileupload/soc-proposal/discussion.mdwn index 299dc4c56..1ce52f0ca 100644 --- a/doc/todo/fileupload/soc-proposal/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/fileupload/soc-proposal/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -There's nothing in [[fileupload]] that suggests putting the file upload limit in the body of a page. That would indeed be a strange choice. Ikiwiki already uses [[PageSpecs|PageSpec]] in the Preferences page (for specifying locked pages, banned users, and subscriptions), and I had envisioned putting the file upload controls there, and possibly subsuming some of those other controls into them. +There's nothing in [[fileupload]] that suggests putting the file upload limit in the body of a page. That would indeed be a strange choice. Ikiwiki already uses [[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]] in the Preferences page (for specifying locked pages, banned users, and subscriptions), and I had envisioned putting the file upload controls there, and possibly subsuming some of those other controls into them. > Thanks for clarifying; I clearly misunderstood the original text. -- Ben -It's not clear to me that the concept of attaching files to a page fits ikiwiki very well; unlike most wikis, ikiwiki supports subdirectories and [[SubPages|SubPage]], which allows for hierarchical placement of uploaded files, which is a much more flexible concept than simple attachment. Futhermore, the idea of listing all attached files at the bottom of a page seems somewhat inflexible. What if I want to make a podcast, using inline's existing support for that -- I won't want a list of every "attached" file at the bottom of my podcast's page then. +It's not clear to me that the concept of attaching files to a page fits ikiwiki very well; unlike most wikis, ikiwiki supports subdirectories and [[SubPages|ikiwiki/SubPage]], which allows for hierarchical placement of uploaded files, which is a much more flexible concept than simple attachment. Futhermore, the idea of listing all attached files at the bottom of a page seems somewhat inflexible. What if I want to make a podcast, using inline's existing support for that -- I won't want a list of every "attached" file at the bottom of my podcast's page then. > If a file was attached to _some-dir/some-page_, it would be stored in _some-dir/_ and linked from _some-page_. That would seem reasonably hierarchical to me. What do you suggest as an alternative? @@ -43,4 +43,4 @@ the image/video/file/... and a discussion page. Probably named image.mdwn and im > I did an proof of concept implementation of this idea [here](http://ng.l4x.org/brainstorm/gallery/) yesterday night, including the link to the source code. I'd really love to hear comments about this approach. (note1: I'm really not interested in any kind of http interface to that thing, just testing ways of storing the meta - data, note2: I'm no perl programmer)
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