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TWiki System Requirements |
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Maintaining minimum client and server requirements is necessary to keep TWiki deployment as broad as possible. |
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< | TWiki is written in Perl 5 and uses a number of shell commands. It requires GNU RCS (Revision Control System) to be installed on the same system. TWiki is developed in a standard Linux/Apache environment. It can also work with Microsoft Windows and other platforms. |
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> | TWiki is written in Perl 5, uses a number of shell commands, and requires RCS (Revision Control System), a GNU Free Software package. TWiki is developed in a basic Linux/Apache environment. It also works with Microsoft Windows, and should have no problem on any other platform that meets the requirements: |
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| Resource | Unix | Windows |
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| Other external programs | ls, fgrep, egrep |
| Web server | Apache; others (with support for CGI, authentication, extended path) * |
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< | Current documentation covers Linux only. Compiling a basic TWikiOnWindows installation guide is an ongoing effort. |
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> | Current documentation covers Linux only. A TWikiOnWindows installation guide is next. |
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< | The TWiki standard installation has extremely low browser requirements: |
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- generates XHTML 1.0 pages that are compatible with HTML 3.2
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- minimal use of JavaScript in the user interface (degrades gracefully)
- no cookies
- no CSS
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> | You can easily add capabilities, through customizing the templates, for one, while tailoring the browser requirements to your situation. |
| | Known Issues |
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- The new TWikiPlugins feature currently does not have any compatibility guidelines for developers. Plugins can require just about anything: browser-specific functions, stylesheets (CSS), Java, cookies, etc.
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- The new TWikiPlugins feature currently does not have compatibility guidelines for developers. Plugins can require just about anything: browser-specific functions, stylesheets (CSS), DHTML, Java applets, cookies.
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