Re: RFC: compiling lpeg into pandoc

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

Thank you all for the answers!

It seemed that there were many proponents and few arguments against
including lpeg, so the decision was made to ship lpeg (and re) with
future pandoc versions.

Cheers,
Albert


Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to request views and opinions on the inclusion of a Lua library
> into pandoc: the LPeg library is a small parsing library written in C to
> be used with Lua. http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/
>
> The motivation is that this library could be used to extend pandoc to
> deal with new formats. A good example is jgm's "lunamark", which could
> be modified to support custom syntax extensions that might otherwise be
> difficult to implement with current filters.
> https://github.com/jgm/lunamark/blob/master/lunamark/reader/markdown.lua
>
> On the other hand, this is yet another library and could be considered
> bloat. Most users, esp. on Mac and Linux, should not find it too
> difficult to install the library on their system should they need it.
>
> The question is therefore if you think whether including lpeg into
> pandoc would make is worth it; e.g., do you believe you'd write such
> LPeg-based parsers? Would you share them with people who wouldn't
> immediately know how to install the library themselves?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Albert
>
>
> PS: The corresponding pull request is
>     https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/7649


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