[9fans] Plan 9 support in mainline Discount

[9fans] Plan 9 support in mainline Discount

[Josh Wood]

I'm happy to say Plan 9 is now a supported platform for the "Discount"
tools for processing the Markdown format.  One can grab Discount from
its home page (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/) &
use an included & almost-normal mk routine to compile and install it.
It builds in the APE environment, but no editing or other preparatory
minor porting is required.

The odd step is a `mk config` stage, necessary to provide access to
several Discount options provided only at compile time.  Mk here is
simply driving a typical Unix configure-make cycle beneath.

Manual pages for the tool (markdown(1)) and the format (markdown(6))
are included.

If you were using the Plan 9-specific `markdown` fork in
/n/sources/contrib/josh, you'll probably want to switch over to
Discount v1.4.3 or later.

-Josh

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 support in mainline Discount

[David Leimbach]

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Very neat!

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Josh Wood <josh@utopian.net> wrote:

> I'm happy to say Plan 9 is now a supported platform for the "Discount"
> tools for processing the Markdown format.  One can grab Discount from
> its home page (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/) &
> use an included & almost-normal mk routine to compile and install it.
> It builds in the APE environment, but no editing or other preparatory
> minor porting is required.
>
> The odd step is a `mk config` stage, necessary to provide access to
> several Discount options provided only at compile time.  Mk here is
> simply driving a typical Unix configure-make cycle beneath.
>
> Manual pages for the tool (markdown(1)) and the format (markdown(6))
> are included.
>
> If you were using the Plan 9-specific `markdown` fork in
> /n/sources/contrib/josh, you'll probably want to switch over to
> Discount v1.4.3 or later.
>
> -Josh
>
>
>

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