From 3b27d8fafaf382cee9c8ce6be426c601588e5503 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:09:33 -0400 Subject: respond --- doc/bugs/Commonmark_support.mdwn | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/bugs') diff --git a/doc/bugs/Commonmark_support.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Commonmark_support.mdwn index 5ee014b19..b05f67f12 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Commonmark_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Commonmark_support.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ I suffer from the occasional markdown glitches using branchable. I've found that switching my own non-ikiwiki projects to https://github.com/jgm/CommonMark has helped sort them out for the most part. + +> ikiwiki does not implement Markdown on its own: it uses one of several +> third-party libraries, with the current recommendation being +> Discount. Out-of-process implementations like +> [[plugins/contrib/pandoc]] are not suitable to be the default for +> performance reasons. +> +> There seems to be a Perl binding for libcmark at +> , but unfortunately +> its README points out that the libcmark API is not stable, +> which means libcmark and perl-commonmark would have to be upgraded +> in lockstep: this makes them awkward to deal with in Linux +> distributions. As a result I'm not going to look into this myself +> until there is a stable API for Commonmark available in Debian. +> +> However, if you want to add optional Commonmark support to the +> [[plugins/mdwn]] plugin, I'd review a patch. --[[smcv]] -- cgit v1.2.3