On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 21:13 +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Timwi wrote:
Gabriel Wicke wrote:
This is what i'm writing currently
So how many people are currently working on a new parser? :-)
Never heard of redundancy? We'll get at least *one* parser done, even if some of us go bluescreen in the process ;-)
I think I like Magnus' one better. Gabriel's might be alright if it was in CVS, but it's not as far as I can see. Will I be stepping on any toes if I do some work on it?
No, if there's interest i (or you) can upload it to CVS as well- it's just not really geared towards working with the current php code (would only return plain xml which php would need to re-parse). It's also supporting big parts of the current Moin syntax additional to the MediaWiki one, and integrating the parser with the Moin framework is what i'd like to do after getting the dom processing working. Kind of another wiki supporting the MediaWiki syntax (yes, with some MW features missing), but smaller code and a cleaner architecture. The planned and currently-being-worked on Moin framework promises many small components tied together by events and interfaces which makes it easy to extend/change things without hacking the main code. Current Moin is also faster than MediaWiki, mainly due to mod_python's long-running processes (little Setup.php-like overhead) and an efficient pickle-based caching system.