WiKit and TclKit were designed to run out-of-the-box, with no installation or configuration whatsoever.
This goes beyond what you are probably used to with software applications as elaborate as WiKit.

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[LV]  Someone want to document the benefits of running wikit locally?

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Enough said, '''let's get you started''':

   1. Grab a compressed copy of the Tcl'ers Wiki at http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit.gz and and uncompress it to '''wikit.tkd''' (unless you want to start with a fresh set of pages)
   1. Grab the appropriate runtime of [TclKit] for your system at http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/
   1. Uncompress and rename it to '''tclkit''' (leave as is on Windows)
   1. Grab a copy of the latest wikit code at [http://www.equi4.com/pub/sk/wikit.kit] and rename to wikit
   1. Make both files executable: '''chmod +x tclkit wikit'''
   1. Type '''tclkit wikit''' ... and you should be up and running

''Welcome to WiKit!''

You can put "tclkit" anywhere on your $PATH, it's just a runtime.
The file "wikit" is an executable [scripted document] containing all the scripts - typing just "wikit" (or "./wikit") should also work.  Note that wikit expects a wikit.tkd file in the current directory (else it will create a fresh one).

This means that if you wish for people to share wikit data locally, you need to write a wrapper that cd's to a common, writable directory, before invoking the wikit.kit file.  That is the only way that all the users - or even you yourself - will see an accumulation of data.  It is an unfortunate consequence of the new design.

You can specify the name of the datafile on the command line.  To open the wiki in read-only mode, add "-readonly" as command-line arg.

WiKit does not require [Tcl/Tk] or [MetaKit] to be installed separately on your system - nor does it care if they are (or will be, one day).  Everything is wrapped up inside the TclKit standalone excutable.  To uninstall WiKit: delete these files again.  To use this on another machine: move them.  If it's a different platform: switch to the proper TclKit runtime and move only the "wikit.tkd" file.

That's all there is to it.
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'''June 18, 2002''' - There is a new version of wikit, see the WiKit home page at  [http://www.equi4.com/wikit/].  It differs from the previous code in that it keeps the wiki data in a ''separate'' MetaKit datafile, while the code is now a standard scripted document.  This is not a rewrite, but it does consolidate all the latest changes, clean up lots of internal messiness, and it's much easier to alter without losing existing wikit page contents.

The new code is now also driving the Tcl'ers Wiki itself -[JCW]
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'''August 2, 2002''' - Fixed link to wikit.kit, it was no longer pointing to the right spot.
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'''November 26, 2002''' - wikit has the ability to fetch newer versions of
the data file itself - just do this:

 tclkit wikit.kit /path/to/wikit.tkd -update http://mini.net/tclhist

''Note that the versions fetched are the daily commits, not the very last-minute pages.''

[LV] Anyone remember which page documents the whole ''Tcdler's Wiki'' CVS page commit'' information?  If so, replace this line with a page reference.  Otherwise, I suppose this would be as good a place as any to document it.
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[Category Wikit]