On 28 March 2018 at 15:27, Andrej Shadura <and...@shadura.me> wrote: > On 28 March 2018 at 03:11, Keith Packard <kei...@debian.org> wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Keith Packard <kei...@debian.org> >> >> * Package name : cmark-gfm >> Version : 0.28.3.gfm.12 >> Upstream Author : John MacFarlane <j...@berkeley.edu> >> * URL : https://ithub.com/github/cmark >> * License : BSD, MIT/X >> Programming Lang: C >> Description : GitHub enhanced version of cmark, the common markdown >> parser >> >> Common Markdown provides a useful standardized language for building >> formatted >> documents. The 'cmark' parser, already in Debian, provides a basic parser >> implementing the core Common Markdown standard. People involved in the GitHub >> system have forked 'cmark' in a way which leaves the core language unchanged >> but extends the system to add table and other additional formatting methods. >> >> This extended version of Common Markdown is used within the github system for >> formatting .md files in project repositories and, as such, is becoming widely >> used within that environment. >> >> I've got preliminary packaging working here: >> >> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/keithp/cmark-gfm.git/ >> >> I'm packaging this so I can use it to replace asciidoc in the altos package >> as >> asciidoc is being deprecated. > > Out of curiosity, how does it compare to > https://github.com/MathieuDuponchelle/cmark? I’m stuck with packaging > hotdoc precisely because I didn’t want to introduce a fork of cmark > into Debian.
More precisely, I meant: https://github.com/MathieuDuponchelle/cmark/commits/extensions_draft_3 -- Cheers, Andrej