Re: How stable is reStructuredText format?

David Goodger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <CABiJP=JRgiikZcaOmgwa8ixWMvx=PSiCMS5ZAbwiGgd57HAeOg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 2:31 AM, crocket <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will there be breaking changes in reStructuredText in the foreseeable
> future?

No.

Ongoing backward compatibility is of paramount importance in Docutils
and the reStructuredText format definition. Any changes made are
additions (new constructs which would have failed in the past) or
corrections (fixing bugs). Documents from years ago still process
properly, using the latest Docutils code.

These days changes/additions are infrequent, incremental, and
discussed thoroughly on the Docutils-develop mailing list first.

David Goodger
<http://python.net/~goodger>

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