On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
It's
slightly more difficult, but it definitely isn't any easier
It is much easier to embed it in other languages, once you get shared
object with Parser methods exposed ;-)
Building it with HipHop will be harder -- but that's something that can be
packaged.
However, I strongly agree that having only a poorly-specified
single-implementation markup language for all of Wikipedia & Wikimedia's
redistributable data is **not where we want to be** long term.
And even if the PHP-based parser is callable from elsewhere, it's not going
to be a good convenient fit for every potential user. It's still worthwhile
to hammer out clearer, more consistent document formats for the future, so
that other people doing other things that we aren't even thinking of have
the flexibility to do those things however they'll need to.
-- brion