On 29 Feb 2008, at 05:17, Michel Fortin wrote:
... And if Markdown.pm keeps evolving (which it should), does
this mean that we would now be on the hook for diffing Markdown.pm
code daily to find out what new features has become official?
That's how I've been keeping in sync with Markdown.pl while it was
updated (diffing each release). This is practical only when the
code is kept pretty similar, as in PHP Markdown vs. Markdown.pl.
I don't see that our community & spec being broken is a good reason
for the reference implementation to not fix bugs.. However I do
appreciate the pragmatism of what you're saying - I myself have done
quite a lot of diffing in-between markdowns ;)
Hum, while it's difficult to spec Markdown because its author
doesn't seem so much interested, I think creating a spec for
Markdown Extra is possible. I could host it on my website,
alongside PHP Markdown Extra, and I could change PHP Markdown Extra
to fit that spec. It'll take some time to write though, and I'm not
sure in what form the grammar should be expressed, but I suppose it
could be done.
I think that it *should* be done. If a community effort to write a
spec / standardise emerges then I'm more than happy to join / make my
code comply.
I'm maintaining MDTest for that. If anyone wants a new test case to
be added to MDTest, I'll gladly accept it. If anyone wants to
dispute one of MDTest's expected result, I'm open to discussion,
preferably on this list so that everybody can take part.
Although it's lacking its proper web page, MDTest and its download
location have been previously announced on this list. Here are a
few interesting links about MDTest:
- Latest release announcement:
<http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2007-
September/000815.html>
- Download link for latest release:
<http://michelf.com/docs/projets/mdtest-1.1.zip>
- GIT repository:
<http://git.michelf.com/mdtest>
I've stolen this into Text::Markdown and Text::MultiMarkdown, but I
think that some chunks of it fail (even though a lot works).
I'll find some time to look back into it, and post to the list with
my conclusions, as I've probably got a whole chunk of test cases that
I want to add, and I'm all for a community maintained test suite of
Markdown (and it's various dialects) :)
Cheers
Tom
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