From: crocket <cro...@gm...> - 2017-07-31 08:31:34
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If I wrote a document in reStructuredText, how long can I expect it to last? |
From: engelbert g. <eng...@gm...> - 2017-07-31 08:35:28
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https://www.openhub.net/p/docutils i would say ... rock class On 31 July 2017 at 10:31, crocket <cro...@gm...> wrote: > If I wrote a document in reStructuredText, how long can I expect it to > last? > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Docutils-users mailing list > Doc...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users > > Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list. > > |
From: crocket <cro...@gm...> - 2017-07-31 08:45:57
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I forgot to send a reply to all recipients. This email is sent to all recipients. I am looking for a lightweight markup language suitable for writing diary and taking notes. Once I write a diary entry, I want to keep it for many decades without modification. If I had to manually modify them after decades, then I would be tempted to treat them as .txt files and not bother to compile them. On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:35 PM, engelbert gruber < eng...@gm...> wrote: > https://www.openhub.net/p/docutils > > i would say ... rock class > > On 31 July 2017 at 10:31, crocket <cro...@gm...> wrote: > >> If I wrote a document in reStructuredText, how long can I expect it to >> last? >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Docutils-users mailing list >> Doc...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users >> >> Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list. >> >> > |
From: Matěj C. <mc...@ce...> - 2017-07-31 12:20:24
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On 2017-07-31, 08:31 GMT, crocket wrote: > If I wrote a document in reStructuredText, how long can I expect it to last? Longer than the latest version of Microsoft Word and probably longer than with one of various versions of Markdown. Do you still have those Lotus Ami Pro documents? Just next to the Word 2.0 ones? Right. Best, Matěj -- http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl<at>ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live. -- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html) |
From: Roberto A. <ra...@kd...> - 2017-07-31 13:27:18
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:31 AM crocket <cro...@gm...> wrote: > If I wrote a document in reStructuredText, how long can I expect it to > last? > > It depends. Will there be a stable, maintained toolchain to process your text in 100 years? Probably not. Will there be a stable, maintained tool to view the HTML or PDF output of your text in 100 years? Probably yes, because there are enough things that need to live a long time in those formats. Will there be a stable, maintained tool to open text files in 100 years? Most likely. If you change those "100" to lower numbers, each one becomes more likely. |
From: crocket <cro...@gm...> - 2017-08-01 07:32:06
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Will there be breaking changes in reStructuredText in the foreseeable future? On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Roberto Alsina <ra...@kd...> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:31 AM crocket <cro...@gm...> wrote: > >> If I wrote a document in reStructuredText, how long can I expect it to >> last? >> >> > It depends. > > Will there be a stable, maintained toolchain to process your text in 100 > years? Probably not. > > Will there be a stable, maintained tool to view the HTML or PDF output of > your text in 100 years? Probably yes, because there are enough things that > need to live a long time in those formats. > > Will there be a stable, maintained tool to open text files in 100 years? > Most likely. > > If you change those "100" to lower numbers, each one becomes more likely. > |
From: David G. <go...@py...> - 2017-08-01 13:47:51
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On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:31 AM, crocket <cro...@gm...> wrote: > Will there be breaking changes in reStructuredText in the foreseeable > future? No. Ongoing backward compatibility is of paramount importance in Docutils and the reStructuredText format definition. Any changes made are additions (new constructs which would have failed in the past) or corrections (fixing bugs). Documents from years ago still process properly, using the latest Docutils code. These days changes/additions are infrequent, incremental, and discussed thoroughly on the Docutils-develop mailing list first. David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger> |
From: Ben F. <ben...@be...> - 2017-08-01 07:51:28
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crocket <cro...@gm...> writes: > Will there be breaking changes in reStructuredText in the foreseeable > future? The reStructuredText *format* was fixed many years ago, and I'm not aware of any proposed newer versions. In fact, I am not aware of any releases of “reStructuredText” in the past ten years. So I'm not sure what changes you're asking about. -- \ “The best ad-libs are rehearsed.” —Graham Kennedy | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney |