Bug#894271: ITP: cmark-gfm -- GitHub enhanced version of cmark, the common markdown parser
On 28 March 2018 at 15:27, Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me> wrote:
> On 28 March 2018 at 03:11, Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name : cmark-gfm
>> Version : 0.28.3.gfm.12
>> Upstream Author : John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
>> * URL : https://ithub.com/github/cmark
>> * License : BSD, MIT/X
>> Programming Lang: C
>> Description : GitHub enhanced version of cmark, the common markdown
>> parser
>>
>> Common Markdown provides a useful standardized language for building formatted
>> documents. The 'cmark' parser, already in Debian, provides a basic parser
>> implementing the core Common Markdown standard. People involved in the GitHub
>> system have forked 'cmark' in a way which leaves the core language unchanged
>> but extends the system to add table and other additional formatting methods.
>>
>> This extended version of Common Markdown is used within the github system for
>> formatting .md files in project repositories and, as such, is becoming widely
>> used within that environment.
>>
>> I've got preliminary packaging working here:
>>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/keithp/cmark-gfm.git/
>>
>> I'm packaging this so I can use it to replace asciidoc in the altos package as
>> asciidoc is being deprecated.
>
> Out of curiosity, how does it compare to
> https://github.com/MathieuDuponchelle/cmark? I’m stuck with packaging
> hotdoc precisely because I didn’t want to introduce a fork of cmark
> into Debian.
More precisely, I meant:
https://github.com/MathieuDuponchelle/cmark/commits/extensions_draft_3
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Cheers,
Andrej
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