2009/5/11 Daniel Schwen <[email protected]>: >> This sucks, but in the four years we have spend talking abotu it, no one >> found a way out that will not break a few million existing wiki pages. > > The simple (albeit ugly) solution would to add a parser version field to the > revision table, drag the old parser along as 'legacy', make the new parser > the default (and only) option for all new edits, and spit out a warning when > you are editing a legacy revision for the first time. The warning you be made > dependent on the cases that break with the new parser. > Cases that break could be detected by comparing tidied HTML output from both > parser versions. > > Nah, well, now slam me for not reading through four years of discussions and > finding out why my proposal is dumb ;-) Actually, this makes sense, and I've heard a very similar suggestion from another developer (I believe it was Tim, not sure) at the Berlin meet-up.
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