First things first...I haven't received any reply from Pygments' maintainer Georg Brandl according to this
info, so try, as I'm told in #pygments, will pull request
here.
nerdzero wrote:Like the song says: "You can't always get what you want"
Not every suggestion can be done by Charles, so be sure not to take it personally.
The things which I proposed (non-wiki docs as primary one, mailing list, dvcs...) is something which I almost take for granted when looking at some FOSS project today.
I have shown several examples of different programming languages and how they handle their docs which is, imho, superior to Cobra's.
However, if the main devs/contributors say that they do see "no obvious immediate benefit", I consider it's waste of time trying to prove otherwise.
Obviously, it works for few of you.
I understand Charles cannot do every suggestion, although in this case I was not expected from him to
do it. Otoh, his plans are "to continue with trac and the wiki in the short term. Longer term, I would like to replace both trac and phpBB with Cobra-based software."
So when the project with practically bus-factor of 1 and only few contributors and dozen users, after being open-source project for more than 5yrs, is even considering to write trac/forum software, then something is seriously wrong, imho.
Of course, it's his project and he can do whatever he likes, but to me it looks he likes Haskell's mantra of: "avoid success at all costs".
Still, I'm thankful to him for convincing me that Mono could be viable platform for me.
I think Cobra is really great but needs some help when it comes to tooling from the supporting cast (you, me, and others) to reach more devs.
Language-wise, I also consider Cobra is really nice language, but my friendly advise is to read this
book However, Cobra has brought me to .NET/Mono platform where I have found languages with mature communities and developed ecosystem (plenty of nicely organized docs, textbooks, using DVCS, mailing lists, IDE/editor support etc.), so I do not want to waste time where people consider that writing docs in Trac's edit box online is great.
Wishing you all the best in the attempt to add support to Pygments and thank you for
your support.