This is a port of discount [1], a C implemetation of the Markdown text-to-html converter. It's several orders of magnitude faster than the original Perl version or the Python package at textproc/markdown [2], and includes both a C library and a standalone executable. (In order to avoid a name collision with textproc/markdown, I've renamed the standalone program from "markdown" to "discount". The library is still libmarkdown.) A separate port of the Lua wrapper for discount will be posted soon, as well.
[1]: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/ [2]: http://eigenclass.org/R2/writings/fast-extensible-simplified-markdown-in-ocaml The tarball is at http://shenani.gen.nz/~scott/ports/discount.tgz , and has been tested on amd64 and i386. Please test and commit. Also: It has a 4-clause BSD license (with the 3rd attribution clause). Should this affect the PERMIT_... lines in the makefile? Scott
