2010-09-27 19:42, Aryeh Gregor skrev: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Andreas Jonsson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Point me to one that has. >> > Maybe I'm wrong. I've never looked at them in depth. I don't mean to > be discouraging here. If you can replace the MediaWiki parser with > something sane, my hat is off to you. But if you don't receive a very > enthusiastic response from established developers, it's probably > because we've had various people trying to replace MediaWiki's parser > with a more conventional one since like 2003, and it's never produced > anything usable in practice. The prevailing sentiment is reflected > pretty well in Tim's commit summary from shortly before giving you > commit access: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/71620 > > Maybe we're just pessimistic, though. I'd be happy to be proven wrong! > >
I'm aware of the previous attempts, and I understand that people are being sceptic. But now I'm claiming that I have made significant progress, and the implementation I'm presenting is my proof. >> Developing a fully featured integration would require a large amount >> of work. But I wouldn't call it hard. I haven't analysed all of the >> hooks, and it is possible that some difficulties will turn up when >> implementing emulation of these. But other than that, I cannot see >> that the integration work would consist of anything but a long list of >> relatively simple tasks. If a project were to be launced to perform >> the integration, I would feel confidident that it would reach its >> goal. >> > For practical purposes, something that requires a large amount of > fiddly and boring work counts as hard too. It can stall a project as > easily as anything else. > > I agree. But I don't believe that any of previous attempts at writing a parser have failed because of the integration. /Andreas _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
