This is basically a pre-announcement. I'll make the announcement more official
by posting it on my blog when it goes out of beta.
There's a new branch to PHP Markdown. It contains the two exact same parsers
found in PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra, but without all the cruft. In
other words: is packaged to be used as a library, and only as a library. The
two parsers classes are in the Michelf namespace:
\Michelf\Markdown
\Michelf\MarkdownExtra
Yep, a namespace, so it requires PHP 5.3 or later.
The Lib branch is [PSR-0] compliant, allowing easy autoloading of its parser
classes. It is also a [Composer] package made [available on Packagist][aop].
It's currently in beta. Now's a good time to make breaking changes, if you have
any to suggest.
[PSR-0]: https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md
[Composer]: http://getcomposer.org
[aop]: https://packagist.org/packages/michelf/php-markdown
## Moving forward
Here's the plan: next year, in 2014, only the Lib branch will continue to be
updated.
The original PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra distributions will continue to
be available and they certainly won't stop working overnight, but starting next
year updates containing bug fixes and new Extra features will go exclusively to
the Lib branch.
Ditching support for older versions of PHP will simplify the maintenance work
and will enable usage of newer PHP constructs in the code. Getting rid of the
Wordpress plugin part will let me worry about things which are more related to
the parser side of things.
--
Michel Fortin
[email protected]
http://michelf.ca/
_______________________________________________
Markdown-Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
