On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Most of the devs know about the new xwiki-rendering engine which provides
> the support for the new xwiki/2.x syntaxes, and the old Radeox-based
> rendering engine which provides support for the xwiki/1.0 syntax, but I
> wonder who knows about the Oro-based wikiwiki engine that provides support
> for an even older undocumented wiki syntax? That one has been in the oldcore
> sources before I came in contact with XWiki, and it has been disabled for a
> very long time.
>
> One thing that we still use from that basic rendering engine is the support
> for {pre}{/pre} code escaping, and that one will have to be preserved even
> if we remove all the rest.
+1 if keeping support for {pre} is not very complicated.
Thanks,
Marius
>
> The advantages of removing it include:
> - less ancient, unused, buggy code
> -- thus slightly less PermGen memory required and faster startup
> - one less Oro dependency (a long term goal is to remove Oro and ECS from
> our dependencies)
> - fewer WTFs from people stumbling over that code
>
> Does anybody know of any users of that syntax? Is anybody still running
> 0.1.x versions?
> --
> Sergiu Dumitriu
> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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