On Thu, Apr 16 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > (following up on IRC discussion) > > Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: > >> I suggest we follow a convention and tool set already in place, >> with multiple language bindings, if you must insist on adding rules to >> the long description. >> >> There are alternatives (Text::Textile comes to mind), but >> Markdown has better language support, so long description parsers might >> have an easier time. >> >> I suggest, for readability, to use a subset of markdown; the >> link and image tags are not that human readable. > > reStructuredText <URL:http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html> (reST) > is, I argue, a superior choice to Markdown for our existing format.
I can live with restructured text. I would like to point out, though, that the language support is more mature in markdown, and the subset of features we care about are identical in markdown and rest. > It also helps that the simple bullet lists that are the most common case > are perfectly valid in reST too. Right. manoj -- Patageometry, n.: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org