Re: looking for volunteers phpDocumentor, new converter reST

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:35, George Schlossnagle wrote: > On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > > # apt-get install python > > > > I don't think its unreasonable to require Perl, Python or PHP, as they > > are pretty major UNIX scripting languages. > > I think it's kinda silly and self-defeating to require another > scripting language to compile the documentation for this scripting > language. This is not about the ease of installation to me (python > lives on all my systems, in fact I think it came installed on every > system I run), it's the prinicipal of the matter. > Well, sure. But that's no technical reason for turning a format down. If you want purity in scripting, write a python replacement program. Until that's written, when it comes to the big 3 (perl, python, php) you shouldn't be choosing the tool based on the language, but rather the functionality it provides. -Sterling > George -- "That stuff's easy compared to installing Horde" - Alan Knowles, In response to my applause for creating a LALR parser for PHP.