Alyssa Ross <h...@alyssa.is> wrote:
> Quoting Amitai Schleier, who made this same change in ikiwiki[1],
> where lots of the public-inbox highlight code comes from:
> 
> > As of 3.51, searchFile() is no longer provided in highlight's Perl
> > bindings (at least on NetBSD and OS X, as built from pkgsrc). This
> > leaves us falling through to getConfDir(), which has been gone
> > rather longer.
> >
> > From highlight git, it appears searchFile() and getFiletypesConfPath()
> > both originated in the 3.14 release. The latter is still available in
> > 3.51, and returns the same result searchFile() used to. Switch to it.
> 
> So, this should still be compatible with the version of highlight.pm in
> Debian, but add support for newer versions as well.
> 
> [1]: commit 4d06df9583e6c4145f8c6fc2fd51d7894c0b85ce

Thanks both, pushed as dadaf7fd96301f1737b2eca2171a742daef8befd

I had my reservations about relying on highlight.pm; and this
confirms them, unfortunately :<  Oh well...

I wonder if pygments or any other code highlighting packages are
more stable.  We'd need to use a pipe or socket to interact with
pygments or anything w/o Perl bindings.
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