Ori Livneh wrote: >Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the >SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The >change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the >lexical analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, >called Pygments. > >The roll-out will remove support for 31 languages while adding support for >several hundred languages not previously supported, including Dart, Rust, >Julia, APL, Mathematica, SNOBOL, Puppet, Dylan, Racket, Swift, and many >others. See <https://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/geshi_changes.txt> for a >full list. The languages that will lose support are mostly obscure, with >the notable exception of ALGOL68, Oz, and MMIX.
Thanks for writing this e-mail and putting together an easy-to-read list. I use the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi MediaWiki extension on a few non-Wikimedia wikis. If I just run "git pull" in the extension's directory in a few days, is that sufficient? The upgrade path isn't totally clear to me from your e-mail. I'm also curious if the Pygments version of the extension will change the required MediaWiki core version needed. >Lastly, the way the extension handles unfamiliar languages will change. >Previously, if the specified language was not supported by the extension, >instead of a code block, the extension would print an error message. From >now on, it will simply output a plain, unhighlighted block of monospaced >code. Actually, not instead of, but in addition to. In general, your change seems like it will be an improvement. My only feature request would be for a tracking category to be auto-populated. Something similar to "Pages containing invalid syntax highlight languages" which would then allow wiki editors to find and address these pages (by setting lang="text" or by filing Phabricator Maniphest tasks to add support for missing languages). For what it's worth, I occasionally found the verbose error message helpful if I tried, for example, <syntaxhighlight lang="html"> instead of lang="html4strict" or lang="html5". I'm not sure if Pygments has additional aliases or is a bit more lenient in cases like this? MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
