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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On September 15, 2009, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:23:23AM +0200, Henning Eggers wrote:
> > I am *very* surprised that everybody is now so surprised at the change
> > which to me is just the logical consequence of a decision that was made
> > some time ago. What went wrong here? Why does nobody remember that
> > switching from Moin to reSt was agreed upon?
> 
> Because we don't use any reSt features for something useful. The only
> thing we use is the header syntax really, so people aren't motivated to
> switch. Doing something "just because" is never a good reason. There has
> to be a clear advantage. Saying that it's better because it's good
> to standardize on one format doesn't quite work here, since we've
> standardized on Moin in the rest of the company (meaning we have to
> use Moin syntax for other things anyway). If reSt actually gave us a
> functional advantage things would probably be different. And by this I
> mean something we actually use. Saying that you can do X and Y with reSt
> is also not a good argument, unless we actually do X and Y.
> 

We are using it in the Lazr packages already to generate documentation and 
publish it on PyPI.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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