21 Oct
2015
21 Oct
'15
10:48 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Denis Gervalle <dgl(a)softec.lu> wrote:
Hi devs,
It looks like a bug to me, but wiki macro defined for global level in a
subwiki, are effectively influencing the whole farm.
If the wiki macro is saved by a global user that has PR.
I would like to change
that like this:
* global level macro are registered global only if defined in the main
wiki
* global and wiki level macro defined in a subwiki are registered at wiki
level
The rationals are:
* if the same global macro document is deployed on more than one wiki,
which just means the same extension defining that document is installed on
multiple wiki, maybe in different version, all those macros will be in
conflict, it will not be easy to know which one wins, and even more
difficult to detect the problem in the first place.
This can happen also if two different extensions define a macro with the
same name (in two different documents), but I guess this is less probable.
* there is risk (of course limited by the PR), that
user of subwiki
influence the behaviors of the whole farm, which IMO is quite opposite to
the logical structure, and even the physical storage we are used to.
What do you mean by "user of subwiki"? It can be a global user.
I agree that subwikis should act as namespaces, and normally you expect
something defined in an inner namespace to not be visible in the outer
namespace. So +1
Thanks,
Marius
* I do not see any benefit of putting a global macro
in a subwiki
wdyt ?
--
Denis Gervalle
SOFTEC sa - CEO
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