[Wolves] Pete's response to Linux Format

[Stuart Langridge]

Zeth Green wrote:
> After Wordpress I moved to Pyblosxom (
> http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ ) which required a tiny bit of SQL
> tom-foolery to get the posts and comments out of Wordpress but it was
> not too bad. Pyblosxom is nice because I just write a post in Gedit or
> Emacs and hit save then I am done.

Pyblosxom isn't good if you've got a lot of posts, though. I 
specifically migrated away from it and to Wordpress because I was 
starting to hit the limits of what can be done with a flat-file 
"database" in reasonable time. My argument for Wordpress is precisely 
that because lots of people use it there are lots of people working on 
making sure it supports stuff properly; with lesser-used engines there 
are fewer people working on that sort of thing. Pyblosxom is a case in 
point here; it didn't have brilliant Unicode support, there wasn't 
anyone working on that, and I didn't have the time (or, frankly, the 
inclination) to dive in and sort that myself. There are a load of 
problems that a weblogging engine needs to solve that I personally don't 
want to have to fix myself -- properly handling escaping, upgrading from 
one version to the next without dumping and reloading the database, 
OpenID logins, caching heavily-hit posts, emailing me when there are new 
comments, spam-trapping, handling trackbacks, simple re-theming. Of 
course, all these things might not be important to you, or they might be 
fixed in your engine, and that's fine -- I trust the WP team to stay on 
top of this sort of thing so I don't have to, which isn't necessarily 
the case for smaller teams. Not to try and push you in the direction of 
WP, naturally; just the other side of the story.

sil