Re: build customizability

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

brainchild writes:
>> Many large parsers, like those for LaTeX and HTML, are dependencies
>> of the Markdown reader
>
> This observations strikes me as quite peculiar. Would you elaborate the
> reasons for the dependencies?

HTML can always be included in Markdown, and extensions like
`markdown_in_html_blocks` make it necessary to parse it.
IIRC, LaTeX is required for math support as well as the `+raw_tex`
extension. Removing those would mean rewriting large parts of the
parser.

>> I seem to remember that, even after removing a significant amount of
>> functionality, I still achieved only a meager 20% reduction in binary
>
> Did your tests include the comprehensive elimination of unneeded library
> dependencies? Doing so correctly might be nontrivial as it requires having
> an accurate graph for dependency resolution.

No, mostly for the reason you mention, but also because the number of
packages made redundant in my experiment were countable on one hand.
That's less than 10% of total dependencies.

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