From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T22:46:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

Gregory Seidman wrote:

> Are you using Hpricot for your parsing? If so, it should be pretty easy to
> do the conversion. If not, why not? (Disclaimer: I've been following the
> thread but haven't looked at or even installed/run the code.)

No, I don't. I want to avoid dependencies as much as I can, so that 
ClothRed can stand on its own as much as possible.

> I understand where you are with this. At the same time, I have an actual
> need to do something very much like this in my own work. I suspect there
> are others out there in a similar situation. We're hoping that this will
> become useful to us sooner rather than later and that we can avoid rolling
> our own.

Regarding the time frame, I'm trying to make it feature-complete as soon 
as I can. There isn't much left to do for the core engine, and after 
that I can pretty it up a bit (with rule sets and the like).

If all goes well, ClothRed will hit the big 1.0.0 at the weekend, as a 
full HTML to Textile parser. After that, I'm very open to ideas 
regarding its future.

-- 
Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski
http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/
http://clothred.rubyforge.org

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22. Backward compatibility is your worst enemy.

23. Backward compatibility is your users' best friend.