linux-kernel - Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

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Date:	Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:46:48 +0200
From:	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To:	Russel Winder <russel@...der.org.uk>,
	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	Graham Whaley <graham.whaley@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit

On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Russel Winder <russel@...der.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 15:23 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
>>   1) the python version (asciidoc) appears to have been abandoned in
>>      favor of the ruby version. 
>
> This is I think true, however the Java-based tool chain Asciidoctor is
> I believe the standard bearer for ASCIIdoc these days, albeit called
> ASCIIdoctor.

If we're talking about the same asciidoctor (http://asciidoctor.org/)
it's written in ruby but you can apparently run it in JVM using
JRuby. Calling it Java-based is misleading.

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center