Hello, > > On Aug 3, 2012, at 11:53 , Michal Suchanek wrote: > >> Why markdown and not one of the dozens of other wiki syntaxes?
If I understand correctly this question wasn't addressed to me (as a developer of the markdown-in-fossil code) but I'll try to contribute as objectively as I can. As a user, the killer feature I see for markdown is that the implementation exists (assuming my code is considered worthy, which is quite a strong assumption, but without it everything else is moot anyway, so I'll keep the assumption in this e-mail). Code that exists wins over code that does not. We can discuss for days about the best markup syntax, it's completely useless when there is nobody to actually implement it. Of course, I would welcome other propositions of implementation, and I would still be glad if my code was rejected in favor of another implementation (of markdown or of another lightweight markup language that I prefer to the current wiki syntax). Now my personal opinion about markdown is probably of no interest to anybody else, but while I do have strong objections and dislikings about it, I haven't encountered any other lightweight markup syntax with which I have more affinity. Useless, isn't it? on Friday 03 August 2012 at 12:19, Michal Suchanek wrote: > And it has been said that markdown is out of the scope of Fossil. I don't know about that. And honestly, I'm glad I don't have to make that call. > I am > not to decide that but I have to agree. Once you let in markdown > people used to some other wiki syntax would argue they have needlessly > hard time and there would be no end to the stream of requests to > include yet another. I think it's very useful to distinguish between requests to write code in order to include yet another, and requests to officially mirror a branch containing ready-to-use code that includes yet another. Surely the stream of the second kind of requests would be much lighter than the stream of the first kind, wouldn't it? And as far as requests of the second kind goes, if the code is good enough and does not bloat the project, why not accept them? (in the context that assumes markdown has already been let in) Thanks for your criticism, Natacha Porté
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