Hi Sergiu,
On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:51 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Hi devs,
Most of the devs know about the new xwiki-rendering engine which provides the support for
the new xwiki/2.x syntaxes, and the old Radeox-based rendering engine which provides
support for the xwiki/1.0 syntax, but I wonder who knows about the Oro-based wikiwiki
engine that provides support for an even older undocumented wiki syntax? That one has been
in the oldcore sources before I came in contact with XWiki, and it has been disabled for a
very long time.
One thing that we still use from that basic rendering engine is the support for
{pre}{/pre} code escaping, and that one will have to be preserved even if we remove all
the rest.
The advantages of removing it include:
- less ancient, unused, buggy code
-- thus slightly less PermGen memory required and faster startup
- one less Oro dependency (a long term goal is to remove Oro and ECS from our
dependencies)
- fewer WTFs from people stumbling over that code
Does anybody know of any users of that syntax? Is anybody still running 0.1.x versions?
+1 but there's the risk of introducing errors in our rewritten pre support so we
would need to be careful.