On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Jordi Boggiano <j.boggi...@seld.be> wrote:
> On 12.08.2013 23:58, Graydon Hoare wrote:
>> On 13-08-12 02:06 PM, Daniel Micay wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think it makes sense to switch from pandoc. It's more
>>> featureful than the other generators, and has many supported output
>>> formats. The perceived popularity is much less important than
>>> quantifiable differences between the alternatives.
>>
>> Yeah, I'd prefer we don't change the doc format on a whim.
>>
>> Most pandoc-supported extensions are either common across markdown
>> implementations or not-used in rust docs. If you find particularly
>> troubling ones we can evaluate them / remove them on a case by case
>> basis. Which ones are you running into?
>
> Valid points. I'd just rather not have to defer to an external process
> for every small piece of markdown we render during the build. But let's
> see if there is anything critical that is not supported by the lib I'm
> using now, and if so I'll add a pandoc renderer.
>
> I still don't know *what* is problematic at the moment though. Anyway
> this can be adjusted later. It's not really a show-stopper right now if
> a couple docblocks appear funny I think?
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Jordi Boggiano
> @seldaek - http://nelm.io/jordi

It's not at all a big deal, but the documentation generator will
determine the documentation syntax we use due to being the defacto
standard.
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