Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
* Package name : upskirt Version : git commit 7cb1a9e0270952ab6e4d Upstream Author : Natacha Porté, Vicent Martà <vic...@github.com> * URL : https://github.com/tanoku/upskirt * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : robust and fast Markdown filter Upskirt The Markdown library that sucks less than your Markdown library Why doesn't Upskirt suck? Markdown is not easy to parse: it's not well standarized, and has a ton of unofficial extensions and corner cases which makes writing a parser for it not trivial. This also makes any Markdown parser or converter inherently sucky. Here's why Upskirt is the least sucky of the Markdown parsers: * If your Markdown library is not standards compliant, Upskirt is. Upskirt passes out of the box the official Markdown v1.0.0 and v1.0.3 test suites, and has been extensively tested with additional corner cases to make sure its output is as sane as possible at all times. * If your Markdown library doesn't support Markdown extensions, Upskirt does. Upskirt has optional support for several (unofficial) Markdown extensions, such as non-strict emphasis, fenced code blocks, tables, autolinks, strikethrough and more. * If your Markdown library is ready to be used in production, you are probably in for a surprise. Upskirt is the only Markdown library ready to be used in a production environment where users can submit arbritrary and potentially malicious contents to render. Upskirt has been extensively security audited, and includes protection against all possible DOS attacks (stack overflows, out of memory situations, malformed Markdown syntax...) and against client attacks through malicious embedded HTML. We've worked very hard to make Upskirt never crash or run out of memory under any input. Upskirt renders all the Markdown content in GitHub and so far hasn't crashed a single time. * If your Markdown library only does HTML, Upskirt does much more. Upskirt is not stuck with XHTML output: the Markdown parser of the library is decoupled from the renderer, so it's trivial to extend the library with custom renderers. A fully functional XHTML renderer is included. * If your Markdown library is slow, Upskirt is not. Upskirt is written in C, with a special emphasis on performance. When wrapped on a dynamic language such as Python or Ruby, it has shown to be up to 40 times faster than other native alternatives. * If your Markdown library has unreasonable dependencies, Upskirt doesn't. Upskirt is a zero-dependency library composed of 3 .c files and their headers. No dependencies, no bullshit. Only standard C99 that builds everywhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110506161645.22079.50506.reportbug@localhost.localdomain
