From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:12:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Message-ID: <20070804091249.GA17821@uranus.ravnborg.org>
In-Reply-To: <46B418AA.4070701@midwinter.com>

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