Features
A brief summery of Pie's major features:
- Quick page processing and short run-time latency
- Highly adaptable configuration
- Low system requirements (both, in regard of the running server's performance as well as the complexity of the installed software base)
- Uses plain text files to store data, and thus is
- Independent of ODBC, SQL and other database systems
- Object orientated storage back-end
- Easily extendable functionality based on distinctive action scripts
- Code library can be shared among multiple (virtual) hosts or installations
- Point & click user interface for text formatting
- Most editing and browsing function can be comfortably evokes via keyboard short cuts
- Multi-user handling
- Page locking
- Page and file versioning
- Page and file aliasing with versatile alias management
- Support of arbitrary media files
- Support of scaled images and image previews
- Extensive user manual
- Weighs less than 150 KB, including documentation, manuals and images
- XHTML 1.0 clean output
- Peachy
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However, there are also certain drawbacks and trade-offs to be taken into account:
- (Almost) no page-related run-time processing.
- Less feature-rich than comparable Wiki-siblings.
- Does not end wars (mayby), does not make love (probably), can't cook coffee (for sure).


