On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Daniel Clark wrote: > Joshua Paine wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:21 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: >>> I'm missing why you wouldn't want to just implement this as code >>> (in C >>> or Javascript) that can translate from fossil wiki markup to >>> markdown >>> markup (or whatever) and back. >> >> Doing it in C, if it's not integrated into fossil core, means to >> use my >> repo correctly, you need my custom version of fossil. Bleh. > > The entire point is that if done in this manner people wouldn't *need* > custom versions of fossil (or non-fossil plugins) - custom versions of > fossil (or non-fossil plugins) would just add the ability to edit text > in a user's preferred format (and then convert and save that as fossil > wiki format). > > Fossil itself would only ever "see"/store fossil wiki markup, so users > without the custom versions of fossil (or non-fossil plugins) could > continue to edit text in fossil wiki format. Users of mainline fossil > would not need to know or care that custom versions of fossil (or > non-fossil plugins) existed.
Then you'd need round-trip capability from (say) Markdown to Fossil+HTML and back again. And then, someone without the plug-in would edit some wiki pages, editing the HTML produced from some Markdown construct not directly translatable into Fossil's markup and hence represented in HTML, and editing that HTML in such a way that it couldn't be translated back into Markdown syntax again. It would then remain HTML, and everyone would be unhappy. > -- > Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation > pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ------------------------------------------------------------------ will -at- wjduquette.com | Catch our weblog, http://foothills.wjduquette.com/blog | The View from the Foothills _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
