Switching gdcproject sources over to markdown

[Johannes Pfau via D.gnu]

Am Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:24:04 +0000
schrieb "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org>:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm in the process of switching over the gdcproject.org sources 
> over from html [sic] to markdown format to allow ease of editing.
> 
> Currently I am using just a generic markdown script to generate 
> the static webpages (ie: Markdown.pl) - though I hear that vibe.d 
> supports markdown, so it may be an opportunity to get gdc/vibe.d 
> hooked up and running the gdcproject.org site. :-)

Great! Markdown rocks, although github-flavored markdown is a great
improvement over plain markdown.

> 
> There's also in the works a /news site with will be a kinda like 
> blog of all things gdc-related.  Again in markdown and this time 
> using Chronicle to compile the pages (maybe end up writing a 
> version in D if I get round to it).
> 
> 
> Pretty much all html files are easily translatable, given that 
> the way I wrote the pages are very basic to begin with.  Only one 
> that is somewhat complex is the downloads page, which I'm told is 
> generated by another script.  ;)
> 
> Johannes, does this affect things you are doing?

As long as I can keep the downloads page as html there's no problem ;-)

If you want the download page in markdown as well I'll have to port
the mustache template[1] to markdown. I guess that could work, but I'd
probably have to use html for the tables anyway.

[1]
https://github.com/jpf91/gdc-build-configs/blob/master/downloads.mustache