Atlassian Confluence (was Re: SnipSnap stirs)

I believe someone on this list mentioned that Atlassian Confluence was
based on SnipSnap and perhaps provides an import-from-snipsnap-xml
feature.

Has anyone on this list done that?  Any success / horror stories?

-Scott Heaberlin

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Nick Rothwell <nick <at> cassiel.com> wrote:
> I posted a message a few weeks ago asking about the state/availability of
> the SnipSnap source code, and since there was recently a spate of postings
> about moving away from SnipSnap, I thought I'd follow up.
>
>  I've got a copy of the fork made by Paulo Abrantes
> (http://www.pabrantes.net), and it compiles cleanly apart from a handful of
> deprecation warnings. (It uses a JAR of Radeox, but I have that in source
> form as well - I've not tried building it yet.)
>
>  The build process is geared towards standalone operation using Jetty, but
> it's possible to punt the JARs and configs of an instance into Tomcat
> without too much difficulty; I now have it running in Tomcat 6. (It might
> also be possible to do the initial config from Tomcat as well - I didn't try
> that, and I'd expect the setup and copying scripts for Jetty to mess things
> up a bit - but new instance creation seems to work fine.)
>
>  Connection to MySQL works fine - after years of Mckoidb, it's nice to be
> able to run an SQL client and see what's going on - and I managed to import
> a few site XMLs happily, apart from one or two wrinkles to do with entity
> encoding.
>
>  It's not 100% plain sailing - there were a few false starts and some EL tag
> whines while I moved things around - but my feeling at this stage is that
> the SnipSnap code base is pretty serviceable. I don't know how it *works*,
> but that's an issue for another day.
>
>  I think Paulo deserves the credit for keeping SnipSnap alive - I don't know
> if he's on this list, but I've dropped him a line to see what his plans are.
>
>         -- N.
>
>
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