In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tomas Doran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>On 27 Feb 2008, at 23:36, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
>
>> As many of you know, when a piece of open-source software languishes
>> with bugs for 3 years it's often forked Markdown.pl is licensed under
>> the BSD license. (do `>tail -35 /path/to/Markdown.pl`)
>>
>> Has anyone thought of forking and maintaining Markdown.pl (hopefully
>> with Gruber's blessing) to fix some of the known bugs?
>>
>> I'm not volunteering (I'd be horrible)... just seeing if it's time to
>> have that discussion.
>
>I'm actively maintaining the CPAN modules Text::Markdown, and
>Text::MultiMarkdown, and longer term, I'd like these to become the
>canonical distribution.
Personally, I don't think that would be a very good idea. Not
because there's anything wrong with your implementation, but
because the current Markdown.pl sticks fairly close to the syntax
document while your modules extend it in a variety of ways.
The fact that Markdown.pl is moving very slowly is a feature
when it's the reference implementation. It makes it much
easier for new implementations to follow the spec when there's
a stationary reference that can be used for auditing.
-david parsons
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