linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Convert Documentation/ to asciidoc?

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Message-ID: <20091213174127.GR8789@waste.org>
Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:41:27 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert Documentation/ to asciidoc?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:29:30AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:38:55 +0100 Diego Calleja wrote:
> 
> > Git uses asciidoc, tools/perf/Documentation uses asciidoc... It seems
> > a good fit for Documentation/. Is there any objection against it?
> > --
> 
> I think I'd like to see it, but I can only say for sure after
> I see the results.  OTOH, Matt Mackall didn't care for it the
> last time that this was brought up.

Mercurial adopted asciidoc early on, and our experience with it wasn't
great - it had many difficult to work around quirks. We eventually
built our own parser for a subset of 'restructured text' to generate
our help messages and build our docs.

I think if we're going to go down a mark-up road for Documentation/,
we're going to need to roll our own tool and make it aware of
kerneldoc and so forth.

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