[katello-devel] Redcarpet and development mode

[Ivan Necas]

The switch from redcarpet to maruku is in this PR. I'm waiting for the gems to build
in koji. I will do one final scratch build for this PR once the deps are ready,
my local tests went fine.

https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/1249

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