forking Markdown.pl?

[Tomas Doran]

On 16 Mar 2008, at 19:07, Jacob Rus wrote:


> Tomas Doran wrote:

>> John Gruber wrote:

>>> Tomas Doran wrote:

>>>

>>>> I'm actively maintaining the CPAN modules Text::Markdown, and  

>>>> Text::MultiMarkdown, and longer term, I'd like these to become  

>>>> the canonical distribution.

>>>

>>> I despise what you've done with Text::Markdown, which is to more  

>>> or less make it an alias for MultiMarkdown, almost every part of  

>>> which I disagree with in terms of syntax additions.

>> Wow, that's pretty strong language. I'm glad I'm provoking strong  

>> opinions, and it's nice to see you actively contributing to  

>> Markdown's direction ;)

>

> It’s harsh but reasonable language in my opinion.  If you are going  

> to make something which is not Markdown (i.e. has other bits of  

> syntax not specified in John's description of that language), then  

> you should call it by a name other than “Markdown”.


Text::Markdown, as stated several times previously on the list *does  
not* have any additional syntax, it behaves *just like* original  
brand Markdown. I *am not* dressing up mutton and calling it lamb...  
So sorry - but you've got totally the wrong end of the stick here.

The internals of how this is implemented currently leave a lot to be  
desired - i.e. it's basically something which extends Markdown  
(Text::MultiMarkdown), with all the extra features turned off, and  
that, I believe was John's objection.

This is in the process of being fixed currently, and a new version  
which fixes the non user visible, internal code layout issues should  
be going up within the next week or so.

Cheers
Tom