On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:47:57 +0000
Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:34:22 -0500
> Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Brian Harring wrote:        [Sun Jan 08 2006, 09:16:36PM EST]
> > > Regardless, (imo) it's already been laid out why guideXML'ifying 
> > > everything doesn't totally work.  Three reasons...
> > > 
> > > A) bit of work required just to jot down a quick list of "this is 
> > > broke, fix it" that's going to be thrown out 2 weeks down the
> > > line.
> > 
> > I noticed Ciaran has been using RST for GLEP 42.  I wonder if it
> > would be a good alternative to guideXML in general.
> > 
> >     http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
> > 
> > I realize this doesn't address the *rest* of what you said,
> > though...
> 
> I agree.
> 
> These little 'howtos' are potentially very short, and guideXML would
> be overkill. RST is absolutely perfect for this kind of thing: quick
> and easy to write, powerful, and legible in raw form. It's also easily
> converted to any number of other formats.
> 
> A new CVS repository containing these little howtos that is accessible
> with viewcvs would be perfect, if you ask me.
> 
> (big snip)

... And then Flameeyes showed me MoinMoin. It understands RST and can
also do XMLRPC. Best of all worlds.

-- 
Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti
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