Re: [Docutils-users] Swift using reStructuredText

[Philipp A. <fly...@we...>]

that’s idiotic. they remove all the semantic information and convert their
perfectly fine directives into inconistent …stuff.

> **note**
>
> ...

or

> Note: ...

from being a “note”, this now became (maybe bold) text inside a blockquote.
who’s being quoted here? Why throw away information that can be used for
clarity?

goddammit. that sounds like some kind of clueless corporate decision:
“Github is hip these days so let’s host our docs on Github, no matter the
consequences”

Tony Narlock <to...@gi...> schrieb am Mo., 7. Dez. 2015 um 19:24 Uhr:

> Unfortunately, it seems they will be moving to markdown for unspecified
> reasons. Apparently they already made up their mind internally.
>
> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-dev/2015-December/000047.html
> https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/246
>
> A bit more detail was added later:
>
> "(Why GitHub-Flavored Markdown? Because most likely the most common way to
> view them will be on GitHub. If we can also get Kramdown compatibility
> that's great, because that's what our website uses, but that's just a
> bonus.)"
>
> Source: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/246#issuecomment-162233091
>
> It's hard to beat the feature set of sphinx, but there are some nice
> systems out there popping up we can learn from.
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Tony Narlock <to...@gi...> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Docutils Users,
>>
>> I'm pleased to let you know, Apple's Swift project joins CoreCLR, LLVM,
>> CMake and other projects to use reStructuredText for their documentation.
>>
>> https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/docs
>>
>> Take note of how the project uses CMakeLists.txt for creating the sphinx
>> Makefile: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/CMakeLists.txt
>>
>
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