On 9 July 2011 22:54, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > How good is good enough? > How many pages is a replacement parser allowed to break, and still be > certified? > That is: what is the *real* spec for mediawikitext? If we say "the formal > grammar", then we are *guaranteed* to break some articles. That's the > "Right Answer", from up here at 40,000 feet, where I watch from (having > the luxury of not being responsible in any way for any of this :-), but > it will involve breaking some eggs. > I bring this back up because, the last time we had this conversation, the > answer was "nope; the new parser will have to be bug-for-bug compatible > with the current one". Or something pretty close to that.
I was thinking the answer was obvious: Brion is about the only man in the world who can get away with anything less than bug-for-bug compatibility, and have his answer accepted. So it's just as well it's him doing it! (Well, Tim could too. But Brion is an excellent answer.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
