As we have some rst users here, I just wanted to note that the rst parser needs better maintenance and a rewrite.
It is more or less unmaintained by moin development, mostly because we do not use ReST. I sometimes try to adapt and fix it, but doing this and testing it is not easy if you are not a ReST user. While this method currently more or less works, there is a big problem at the horizon: for some version after 2.0 we are currently working on a complete rewrite of how parsers and formatters work (see http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9-dom-bblank/ - don't be confused by the "1.9" in it, it just means it is currently based on 1.9, NOT that it will be released as 1.9). This approach will work internally with some sort of DOM tree and will be much cleaner and more powerful than the current way (the current parser/formatter works line-by-line and that's often a problem). Problem is that there is no rewrite of the rst parser yet (and that it should be done by someone with a clue about rst, but we have no such developer). It will take a while until we can get that code into production - but it will also take a while until a new rst parser could be finished, IF somebody jumps on it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
