I saw somewhere that Luis Lavena was researching porting rDiscount to
Windows but also that it didn't look good (discount depends on some *nix
only libraries, I think)
Hopefully I'm wrong, though.
Either way, I didn't mean to hijack a thread. New Redcloth for all!
-Chris
john muhl wrote:
On 2008/07/24, at 07:44, Sean Cribbs wrote:
How would people feel about switching to a gem dependency on the
latest RedCloth (instead of packaging it)?
I think it's going to have to happen at some point unless Radiant
wants to keep using the same old text parsing libraries from
2004/2005. Waiting for the pure ruby libraries catch back up is the
other (wishful) option.
On 2008/07/24, at 09:31, Chris Parrish wrote:
I understood discoount to be *nix only (no Windows). I'll have to
look into it further.
That's right. Although there isn't anything really stopping it from
being compiled for windows with mingw just like they did RedCloth 4;
except of course finding people who use windows to do the work :)
There is also PEG markdown (rpeg-markdown in ruby land) but right now
it is completely unusable on big (huge?) spans of text and I'm not
sure it's any easier to get running in windows. Personally, I'd rather
have a PEG based Markdown than a Discount based one.
As far as getting a new Markdown parser into core I'd say don't even
bother yet. As has been stated Discount doesn't (yet) run on windows,
and PEG Markdown is crashy (and probably doesn't run on windows either).
I would definitely like to see Radiant upgrade to RedCloth 4 sometime
soon. If no one jumps up to take it on in the next week, I'll try to
get it running then.
p.s. I did put together a standalone Markdown filter that uses
rdiscount, so if you can install gems and don't run windows you can
use that until something better is in the core. I use it on live sites
with no problems (some were even started with the standard Markdown
filter and upgraded without issue).
http://github.com/johnmuhl/radiant-markdown-extension
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