Chad wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: >> I realize you have a dry wit, but I imagine this joke was lost on nearly >> everyone. You're not really suggesting that everyone who wants to parse >> MediaWiki wikitext compile and run HipHop PHP in order to do so. > > And how is using the parser with HipHop going to be any more > difficult than using it with Zend?
The point is that the wikitext and its parsing should be completely separate from MediaWiki/PHP/HipHop/Zend. I think some of the bigger picture is getting lost here. Wikimedia produces XML dumps that contain wikitext. For most people, this is the only way to obtain and reuse large amounts of content from Wikimedia wikis (especially as the HTML dumps haven't been re-created since 2008). There needs to be a way for others to be able to very easily deal with this content. Many people have suggested (with good reason) that this means that wikitext parsing needs to be reproducible in other programming languages. While HipHop may be the best thing since sliced bread, I've yet to see anyone put forward a compelling reason that the current state of affairs is acceptable. Saying "well, it'll soon be much faster for MediaWiki to parse" doesn't overcome the legitimate issues that re-users have (such as programming in a language other than PHP, banish the thought). For me, the idea that all that's needed is a faster parser in PHP is a complete non-starter. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
