[katello-devel] Redcarpet and development mode

[Ivan Necas]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> 
> ----- 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

>From fast survey I've made here is the winner:

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/projects/maruku

Features:

- converts markdown to html (quite expected:)
- pure ruby
- packaged for fedora http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=10063

Expect PR and RPMs for f16 and epel in the afternoon.

-- Ivan

> 
> -- Ivan
> 
> > 
> > LZ
> > 
> > --
> > Later,
> > 
> >  Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
> >  #katello #systemengine
> > 
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