Am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 17:59 schrieb Andre Poenitz:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:44:09PM +1800, Bo Peng wrote:
> > The only problem I can see is that this project is young (6 month
> > old?), with only two developers.

The cvs has the first commits two years ago. A project that still has the 
activity of plastex after two years is IMHO quite reliable, even if it 
only has two developers.

> Knuth certainly spent less than a year for the first TeX parser...

But he a) invented TeX, b) is a highly gifted computer scientist and c) did 
not have to follow some existing stuff that is very hairy in the details. 
IMHO c) is the most important reason why anybody else will spend more 
time.


Georg

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