On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
I realize you have a dry wit, but I imagine this
joke was lost on nearly
everyone. You're not really suggesting that everyone who wants to parse
MediaWiki wikitext compile and run HipHop PHP in order to do so.
And how is using the parser with HipHop going to be any more
difficult than using it with Zend?
It's slightly more difficult, but it definitely isn't any easier. The
point here is that only having one implementation of the parser, which
can change at any time, which also defines the spec (and I use the
word spec here really loosely), is something that inhibits the ability
to share knowledge.
Requiring people use our PHP implementation, whether or not it is
compiled to C is ludicrous.
- Ryan