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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: ITP: libsyntax-ruby -- A simple Ruby syntax highlighting library
- From: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:52:05 -0300
- Message-id: <20100826105205.23934.30037.reportbug@lear.nslug.ns.ca>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
* Package name : libsyntax-ruby
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : Jamis Buck <jamis@jamisbuck.org>
* URL : http://syntax.rubyforge.org/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Ruby
Description : A simple Ruby syntax highlighting library
This is a simple syntax highlighting library for Ruby. It is a naive syntax
analysis tool, meaning that it does not "understand" the syntaxes of the
languages it processes, but merely does some semi-intelligent pattern matching.
There are primarily two uses for the Syntax library:
# Convert text from a supported syntax to a supported highlight format (like HTML).
# Tokenize text in a supported syntax and process the tokens directly.
While there already exist other Ruby syntax highlighting libraries in Debian,
this one is a dependency of Cucumber, which I RFP'd (#565769) a while ago and
will shortly be converted to an ITP, if not by me then by a colleague.
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