Re: [Docutils-users] How stable is reStructuredText format?

[crocket <cro...@gm...>]

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.
>