Re: [PATCH 0/4] Allow building Git with Asciidoctor

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Oct 14, 2014, 11:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20141014112642.GB7041@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <543CF5F7.5060704@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:07:51PM +0200, Jakub Narębski wrote:

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> brian m. carlson wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 01:41:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >>
> >>What I do not understand is that 3/4 lets you drop inclusion of
> >>asciidoc.conf which contains a lot more than just linkgit:
> >>definition.
> >
> >Asciidoctor just doesn't understand the -f argument, so trying to pass
> >it is going to fail.  For Asciidoctor, you're going to want to do
> >something like "-I. -rasciidoctor/extensions -rextensions" there
> >instead.
> >
> >As for the rest of the asciidoc.conf file, the DocBook manpage header
> >declarations are implemented automatically by Asciidoctor after my
> >recent patches.  The paragraph hacks do not appear to be necessary with
> >Asciidoctor, so they've been omitted.
> >
> >That leaves the attributes.  All but litdd are built-in to Asciidoctor,
> >and I can reroll with a modification to extensions.rb that implements
> >that one.
> 
> Would it be possible to automatically convert asciidoc.conf file to
> Asciidoctor extension?

It is in theory possible, but it's going to result in a lot of messy code. I'm also not sure that Junio wants more than the minimal amount of Ruby possible, since the goal has been to move away from scripting languages and to C.

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