On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Subramanya Sastry <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/25/2015 06:29 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> On 25 June 2015 at 23:22, Subramanya Sastry <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On behalf of the parsing team, here is an update about Parsoid, the >>> bidirectional wikitext <-> HTML parser that supports Visual Editor, >>> Flow, >>> and Content Translation. >>> >> eeeexcellent. How close are we to binning the PHP parser? (I realise >> that's a way off, but grant me my dreams.) >> > > The "PHP parser" used in production has 3 components: the preprocessor, > the core parser, Tidy. Parsoid relies on the PHP preprocessor (access via > the mediawiki API), so that part of the PHP parser will continue to be in > operation. > > As noted in my update, we are working towards read views served by Parsoid > HTML which requires several ducks to be lined up in a row. When that > happens everywhere, the core PHP parser and Tidy will no longer be used. > Do we have plans for avoiding code rot in "unused" the PHP parser code that would affect smaller third-party sites that don't using Parsoid? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
