So, after looking at the backlog of GeSHi's pull requests, I decided that
my itch was irritating enough to warrant a click on that nasty little fork
button. Let me introduce you to Chechil Highlighter
<https://github.com/MaxSem/chechil>. So far, I've:
- Grabbed all pending GeSHi pull requests and reviewed them, merging
into Chechil whenever it made sense.
- Thrown out support for pre-antiquated PHP versions
- Ditched a couple of small features deprecated by GeSHi developers
themselves
- Started adding unit tests
My immediate plans are to cover stuff with at least basic unit tests before
a major rewrite, which would include:
- Kill the system where every language definition specifies its own
styles in favor of a unified CSS file. That would make things more
consistent and allow us to significantly reduce the size of our startup
module that wouldn't need to contain all those per-language modules. And
would allow restyling the highlighted text easily and consistently.
- Converting PHP language definitions to JSON for improved security.
Especially important since GeSHi allows you to use custom definitions.
- Generally improving the code base, bringing it up to modern standards.
So far, this is just a personal pet project, I'm not proposing that we use
it for highlighting on WMF or anything, but I feel like that would be a
step forward if the rewrite succeeds. Please don't hesitate to throw your
boos or suggestions at me!
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])