Re: Hot Web Topic - SWI - Software Index

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 27.07.2024 um 22:47 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 12:43 PM H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> 
> wrote:
> The benefit of SWI would be that it is agnostic to the distribution - which 
> can also be a bad thing if dependencies are not available... So it works for 
> binary .app-Bundle downloads only if there is a 100% stable API and set of 
> Frameworks.
> 
> > what's your point?
> 
> So if nobody cares about SWI any more, Wiki Pages are a better solution than 
> nothing.
> 
> "Nobody cares" is strong: I care mainly from a preservationist point of view 
> -- if I were to get it back up, I'd likely rewrite it in Go since that's what 
> I'm most familiar with nowadays. Alternatively, some slightly more modern 
> PHP, using as much from SWI as possible (but reworking queries themselves a 
> lot).
> 
> GSWeb would be really nice, but I am not familiar with it, and I am not sure 
> if I were to do it, that writing it would be fast enough.
>  There's also the option of getting it up and running inside a Docker/Podman 
> container with older PHP, Apache2 etc.
> 
> All in all, I think the concern is "should we duplicate the information 
> longer-term", not so much "nobody cares"...
> 
> So If anyone else feels like rewriting it, for preservation purposes, please 
> go ahead; I'm unlikely to find the time, even though I'd like to. Hosting 
> something with available source code and reviewed by us, especially 
> containerized, is not a problem.

I am willing to spend that time for the rewrite. Could you please send me the 
PHP code for the SWI? I think I once had it, but don’t remember where I put it. 
For some strange reasons I had to learn PHP and modern PHP isn’t as bad as it 
used to be.

Cheers,
Fred