From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:12:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20070804091249.GA17821@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <7vzm18jg7p.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200708040341.36147.ismail@pardus.org.tr> <7vsl70jdcr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46B3F762.1050306@midwinter.com> <7vfy2zj4nj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Ismail =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=F6nmez?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Grimm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 04 11:11:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IHFfs-0004h2-1D for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:11:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759336AbXHDJLf (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 05:11:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759204AbXHDJLf (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 05:11:35 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:59791 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758091AbXHDJLe (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 05:11:34 -0400 Received: from ravnborg.org (0x535d98d8.vgnxx8.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [83.93.152.216]) by pasmtpB.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B65E31476; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:11:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ravnborg.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 02631580D2; Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:12:49 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:11:54PM +0800, Steven Grimm wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >If I read you correctly, what you are proposing to offer is a > >clone of asciidoc, perhaps AsciiDoc 7, with only xhtml11 and man > >backends. It is a subset in the sense that you will do only two > >backends, but otherwise is a clone in the sense that you are > >going to implement the input language we use (one thing I > >personally care about while probably other people do not is the > >conditional compilation "ifdef::stalenotes[]" in git.txt). > > > > Yes and no. I am not offering to clone *all* of AsciiDoc, just whatever > subset is necessary to format the git documentation. (Of course, having > looked at this very little so far, perhaps that really is all of > AsciiDoc -- but it's certainly not all of xmlto.) Never looked at Ascii-doc... but how about finding the loopholes in Ascii-doc to make it 10x faster? That would benefit a larger user-base than just doing-it-ourself. Sam