[Trac] mediawiki style wiki processor

[Matthew Good]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 16:55 +0100, trac at nogga.de wrote:
> > If there were a way to swap Trac's wiki syntax for media wiki's that 
> > would be a nice start... or, heavens to Betsy, would there be a way to 
> > use Media Wiki instead of the Trac wiki and yet somehow retain Trac's 
> > much-appreciated trinity of integration?
> 
> In principle you can swap the wiki processor, like you can do now with 
> restructured Text and HTML 
> (http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/WikiProcessors). One only have 
> to write a MediaWiki processor. It would be wonderful, if one could use 
> the original MediaWiki code, but that is written in PHP and I don't 
> know, wether it is possible to bridge from Python to PHP.

Well, anything's possible.  I think you can invoke the PHP interpreter
from the command line, so you should be able to call it that way from a
WikiProcessor.  I don't think we'd want to include this standardly in
Trac though due to the added dependencies.  

However, the issues of integration between Trac's components are
probably going to be the reason that Trac is always dependent on its own
Wiki engine.  If there are specific features from other Wikis that would
be valuable in Trac, I think people should suggest adding those features
to Trac, rather than replacing the Wiki engine.  

-- 
Matthew Good <trac at matt-good.net>