Re: Updated markdown plugin

I'll try to get to this (and a handful of other web-site related 
changes) in the next few weeks.


tchomby wrote:
> New markdown plugin for pyblosxom that uses python-markdown 2.0:
> 
>     http://gist.github.com/93153
> 
> Can this be added to the plugin registry?
> 
> The old markdown plugin that is still linked to in the pyblosxom
> plugin registry is a very old one. It contains a complete
> implementation of markdown inside the plugin itself, it's buggy, and
> it's unmaintained.
> 
> A while ago Benjamin Mako Hill posted a better plugin that uses
> [python-markdown], the leading implementation of markdown in python,
> rather than implementing markdown in the plugin itself. I've now
> updated that plugin to use the new python-markdown 2.0. This is much
> less buggy than the old markdown plugin that's in the registry,
> python-markdown is actively maintained, and python-markdown has a
> _lot_ of nice extra features in the extensions that come with it.
> Since we (the pyblosxom community) need only maintain a pyblosxom
> plugin that uses python-markdown via python-markdown's stable API, we
> will not need to release new versions of the plugin when bugs are
> fixed and features added to python-markdown, users can update their
> versions of python-markdown and the pyblosxom plugin will continue to
> work.
> 
> [python-markdown]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/

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