On September 15, 2009, Bjorn Tillenius wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Henning Eggers wrote: > > I am *very* surprised that everybody is now so surprised at the change > > which to me is just the logical consequence of a decision that was made > > some time ago. What went wrong here? Why does nobody remember that > > switching from Moin to reSt was agreed upon? > > Because we don't use any reSt features for something useful. The only > thing we use is the header syntax really, so people aren't motivated to > switch. Doing something "just because" is never a good reason. There has > to be a clear advantage. Saying that it's better because it's good > to standardize on one format doesn't quite work here, since we've > standardized on Moin in the rest of the company (meaning we have to > use Moin syntax for other things anyway). If reSt actually gave us a > functional advantage things would probably be different. And by this I > mean something we actually use. Saying that you can do X and Y with reSt > is also not a good argument, unless we actually do X and Y. >
We are using it in the Lazr packages already to generate documentation and publish it on PyPI. -- Francis J. Lacoste [email protected]
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