Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Python-Markdown 2.0 Release Candidate

[Artem Y. <se...@sp...>]

Glad it's almost released! I think performance increase should be also
mentioned.

Best Regards,
Artem Yunusov

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...> wrote:

> I am pleased to announce that after much hard work, a Release
> Candidate for Python Markdown version 2.0 is now available for
> [download][]. Please, download it, install it, test it, beat it... and
> report any [bugs][]. Assuming no major bugs, we will release 2.0 final
> approximately one month from today. Until then, the project [site][]
> will continue to document version 1.7. Updated documentation is
> available in the `doc/` directory in the source files. Hopefully, all
> the included extensions will be documented before the final release.
>
> [download]:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153041&package_id=183331&release_id=666767
> [bugs]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Tickets
> [site]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown
>
> Release Notes:
> ===========
>
> * Major refactor of the core and extension API. Extension authors
> should see the included documentation in
> `docs/writing_extensions.txt`. All parts of the syntax are now
> completely overridable by extensions.
>
> * Numerous extensions added to the standard distribution (off by
> default), including an "extra" extension which matches PHP Markdown
> Extra. See the `markdown/extensions/` directory for the full list.
>
> * The code has been refactored into a full Python library with a
> separate command line script.
>
> * Optional output of XHTML1 (default) or HTML4 with the option for
> extensions to add more.
>
> * Uses ElementTree to build (X)HTML document rather than home-grown
> NanoDom.
>
> * Most of the differences in Python-Markdown's output compared to perl
> and/or php have been eliminated.
>
> * And much more... See the changelog and [Git log][] for more details.
>
> [Git log]:
> http://gitorious.org/projects/python-markdown/repos/mainline/logs
>
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