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Manfred Rebentisch schrieb: | Hello, | I am new to this list and I don't know about older discussions. | | So I ask you: is it interesting for you, to change Wikipedia from PHP to a | C-written engine?
Doing C/C++ myself, I have considered that for some time. But, any replacement would have to do *exactly* what the current software does. While this is certainly possible, it will be a lot of work, and getting developers on it might not be easy until it is basically ready, which turns out to be a circular problem :-(
| I just in development (most is ready) of a high-performance, high-security | tool, usable for Wikis, CMS or forums. It is Open-Source (GPL). The sources | are not available at the moment, because I make changes every day. But it | need only some weeks... I created two libraries to make a | forum-platform-application: libstd3000c and libcpcgic. The application can | use fastCGI and communicate with Apache as an daemon (FastCGIExternalServer).
You might be interested in the "waikiki" module of MediaWiki CVS, which contains simple but working C++ code for rendering pages from the MediaWiki wiki-style flavour.
Also, we are trying to get a Bison-based wiki-to-XML parser in C working (we could use some help there!). That would enable us to keep the existing PHP framework while "outsourcing" the runtime-critical parsing to C.
Magnus