Graham Seaman wrote:

Hi all,

Not having used openguides before I'm trying to work my way through the long chain of cpan dependencies and have got stuck with CGI::Wiki. I'm getting the error messages reported on

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/269669

which are all from trying to write nodes with no contents. As far as I can see from the CGI::Wiki documentation this is required behaviour, so it looks like I need to find a fix for it. In an initial fit of optimism I thought I'd try to track down where the problem was originating from, but I've got lost. I assume Text::Wikiformat is being invoked through the format() routine, but I've failed miserably at following the tangled route from $wiki->write_node() to format(). Has anyone got any further, or found a way round this? I did mail chromatic to ask him if he had any ideas, but he (very reasonably) suggested I provide a clear test case first (though he also said he might look at it in the next few days).

This is due to some major changes to Text::WikiFormat, which cause CGI::Wiki to break. The problem has already been noted, and we have a couple of workarounds:

a) downgrade Text::WikiFormat to version 0.71 (from backpan)

b) force install CGI::Wiki::Formatter::UseMod

The application code in OpenGuides specifically excludes the case of a completely empty node, which is what triggers the failure. If you do manage to crack the underlying problem in CGI::Wiki::Formatter::UseMod, a patch would be most welcome.

Ivor.