[katello-devel] Redcarpet and development mode

[Ivan Necas]

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:10:28PM -0800, Michael McCune wrote:
> > On 12/12/2012 11:06 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> > >Hey,
> > >
> > >for some reason, Redcarpet segfaults for me when I try start
> > >Katello in
> > >development mode. This is very limiting for me, is there a
> > >workaround?
> > >I think this was working, not sure what is wrong.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > 
> > I get the same on EL 6.3, haven't found a workaround yet.
> 
> Redcarpet is not used in production mode, so subject should be maybe:
> 
> Redcarpet does not work on RHEL 6.3 at all.
> 
> There is a bunch of bugreports on their site, about 10 segfaults. I
> wonder if we have chosen the right dependency.
> 
> ps - When choosing a dependency, always select the one without any
> native code. This is an old good Java rule. No optimalization when we
> do
> not need it. Mixing interpreted and native code is challenging.

That's why I've emphased on making this dependency only development level.
Switching to another library that conversts markdown to html is really easy:
implementing a 10 lines class (including empty lines:) like this

https://github.com/Pajk/apipie-rails/blob/master/lib/apipie/markup.rb#L19

The reasons there is RedCarpet used as default are:

- large user base (github uses it for rendering their stuff, what else you can wish)
- already packaged for Fedora
- it worked :)

I will try different renderer

-- Ivan

> 
> LZ
> 
> --
> Later,
> 
>  Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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