On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Natacha Porté <nata...@instinctive.eu> wrote:
> authors hope). Fortunately, there is no rush to take such a decision, as > a community we can reasonably to wait and see how CommonMark adoption > pans out. > > [1]: http://commonmark.org/ i am completely ambivalent on the topic of which wiki formats Fossil should/should not support, but will offer a few observations... - i have never seen a project called "common-anything" which has ever actually become "common" at all. CommonJS has been trying for years to define common frameworks for JS, with very limited success. In practice, standards arise "de facto" - from prominent use of the code/practices in real-world projects, and not from an "ivory tower" decision-making process. - Anyone trying to get a general consensus on wiki formats has probably never observed a true standardization effort in progress. The IEEE standardization effort of JSON has been going on for almost a year and the members are still quibbling about details like numeric precision guarantees. (On the one hand, they want ease of implementation and portability, but on the other hand they want infinite-precision numbers.) CommonJS is another case of this - each of its "standards" is made up of multiple proposals for similar-yet-different APIs, for which there is _no_ general consensus. - Wiki syntaxes have always been a matter of personal taste, and there are no less than 100 different ones out there in use. To anyone who believes they can convince people to switch to a "common" dialect... i've got a bridge in Brooklyn i'd like to sell them. i.e. i don't see CommonMark being more than yet another attempt to create a "perfect world," and history strongly suggests that they will be fighting an up-hill battle for a while before it ultimately runs out of steams and becomes simply yet another wiki markup platform. i could very well be wrong (as i so _sorely_ was about tablets only 3 or 4 years ago, and 19 years ago with regards to the downfall of Unix), but the term "wiki format standardization" is almost an oxymoron, and i don't foresee CommonMark breaking that pattern. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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