Annoyance: MoinMoin 1.6

[mas90]

I upgraded my home server, callisto, to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) prerelease yesterday, and in the process caused my copy of the MoinMoin wiki engine to be upgraded from version 1.5.8 to version 1.7.1. Now, I've been recommending MoinMoin for a long time as a sane, well-written piece of wiki software which is packaged sensibly in Debian and Ubuntu

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[gerald_duck]

Eww.

Having reluctantly tolerated OpenBSD's lack of a journaled filesystem for several years of ever-increasing disc capacities, I finally gave up with them when they switched the format of executables to ELF on a minor version increment… with no backwards compatability. Did I fancy recompiling every executable on the system - having first identified them? No, I did not. I soldiered on with the previous version for a while and then migrated to Linux.

For some reason, I felt like the only person complaining about OpenBSD's travesty of common sense; how do other MoinMoin users feel? Is there any scope for taking a branch before the apocalypse and keeping it up to date with security patches while people try to work out what to do?

[mas90]

Creating a fork is quite tempting, but would be a serious undertaking. I haven't yet had the chance to trawl the internets looking for other similarly annoyed people (what with having a paper due soon from which I am procrastinating enough already).