I propose that any particular module should contain at most one kind of stuff.

My main conclusion is that TWikiDotPm contains the following:

This would add:

• RenderDotPm
• DirectivesDotPm
• MirrorDotPm
• UserManagementDotPm
• NotifyDotPm

Thoughts?

-- MartinCleaver - 18,23 Jun 2002

Most importantly, I feel, is the proposal to separate the initialisation for CgiScripts from everything else. Currently these are all done by TWikiDotPm, making it impossible to use one without the other.

I came a cropper with this when building a Plugin for SubmitTopicByEmail, because whenever a piece of mail came in I was required to do proper initialisation of the CgiEnvironment in order to map from email name to wiki user name.

Second most important would be the creation of Render.pm because rendering is such a large part of what TWiki does it would aid to clarity to get this reflected in the code. It would also allow the RenderingPipeline to be used in new and interesting ways, for instance it would be possible to get TWiki to render in response to a WebService request, something that is not currently possible.

-- MartinCleaver - 01 Jul 2002