Re: re-formatting CREDITS file

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > On 08.06.2009, at 00:15, Greg Beaver wrote: > >> Pierre Joye wrote: >>>> The pickle command relies upon a few files to do its magic, such as >>>> >>>> README >>>> CREDITS >>>> RELEASE-X.Y.Z >>>> >>> >>> Does it support text formatting like markdown or rest? that would >>> even better. >>> >> No, the text is copied verbatim into <summary> <description> and <notes> >> fields of package.xml (with appropriate encoding and escaping of &lt; >> and friends). >> >> Of course, this is just how I wrote the code, and the best part (I >> think) about Pyrus is there is a distinct separation of the developer >> tools from the core installer, thus it will be easy and economical to >> bloat^H^H^H^Hadd as many features as people need into the developer >> tools. Personally, I would tend to wonder if the README/CREDITS files >> are the best place for complex formatting? However, one can easily do a >> format like wiki markup which is still human-readable, and it solves >> your problem and mine without any need to change the code. > > > The reST format tries to bridge the need for a non parsed view as well. > This is what I have started (though never really finished) fo the > README's in php-src [1]. The README's listed there are simply read > from CVS and parsed to HTML. Hi, I'm all for this, however, if you want ReST validation of these files in PEAR2_Pyrus_Developer, I will gently ask for an outside contributor to provide this code (svn access will be readily granted) :) Greg