On Thu, Aug 01, 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev@zesty.ca>:
I am not against structured text processing systems in general. I think that something of this flavour would be a great solution for PEPs and docstrings, and that David has done an impressive job on RST. It's just that RST is much too big (for me).
And if we're going to pay the transition costs to move to a heavyweight markup, it ought to be DocBook, same direction GNOME and KDE and the Linux kernel and FreeBSD and PHP are going.
Well, reST can generate DocBook easily enough. The problem I see with DocBook is the creation/editing side: XML is painful. Having written one presentation in pure XML/PythonPoint and another presentation in my home-grown structured text system that then got converted to XML for processing by PythonPoint, I'm a big believer in the *concept* of reST. What remains to be seen is whether reST works well enough in the Real World [tm]. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/