Markdown Discuss - Jan 2013 - PHP Markdown Lib 1.3 (Beta 4)

This is basically a pre-announcement. I'll make the announcement more
official by posting it on my blog when it goes out of beta.

There's a new branch to PHP Markdown. It contains the two exact same parsers
found in PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra, but without all the cruft. In
other words: is packaged to be used as a library, and only as a library. The two
parsers classes are in the Michelf namespace:

	\Michelf\Markdown
	\Michelf\MarkdownExtra

Yep, a namespace, so it requires PHP 5.3 or later.

The Lib branch is [PSR-0] compliant, allowing easy autoloading of its parser
classes. It is also a [Composer] package made [available on Packagist][aop].

It's currently in beta. Now's a good time to make breaking changes, if
you have any to suggest.

[PSR-0]: https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md
[Composer]: http://getcomposer.org
[aop]: https://packagist.org/packages/michelf/php-markdown


## Moving forward

Here's the plan: next year, in 2014, only the Lib branch will continue to be
updated.

The original PHP Markdown and PHP Markdown Extra distributions will continue to
be available and they certainly won't stop working overnight, but starting
next year updates containing bug fixes and new Extra features will go
exclusively to the Lib branch.

Ditching support for older versions of PHP will simplify the maintenance work
and will enable usage of newer PHP constructs in the code. Getting rid of the
Wordpress plugin part will let me worry about things which are more related to
the parser side of things.


-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.ca
http://michelf.ca/

Here's to hoping someone else smarter than I figures out how to use the
library to create a new wordpress plugin! I have nearly 10 years of posts and
pages in various web sites that would suffer greatly!

In any case, thank you Michel for all of the work you done over the years.


On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.ca>
wrote:
> Ditching support for older versions of PHP will simplify the maintenance
work and will enable usage of newer PHP constructs in the code. Getting rid of
the Wordpress plugin part will let me worry about things which are more related
to the parser side of things.

/david

--
david herren-lage - shoreham, vt

Microsoft says they're going to create "fault tolerant" software.
Why bother? They've spent two decades developing fault tolerant customers.