I'm not sure I get why there's talk of "custom fossil". This is a feature that a overwhelming majority want. If the feature were put in wouldn't it just be "people with old fossil needing to update"?
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Will Duquette <w...@wjduquette.com> wrote: > 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://pobox.com/%7Edclark> | > 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 >
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