[Bug 740160] Review Request: discount - An implementation of the Markdown language in C

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--- Comment #13 from Craig Barnes <cbgnome at gmail.com> 2012-01-24 13:32:25 EST ---
Hmm, I didn't really do any research or forward thinking with this renaming
thing. I'm starting to think renaming the binary from "markdown" to "discount"
might not be the best aproach. 

Case in point:

Discount:

* Ships with a full set of man pages
* Has no external runtime dependencies
* Is fast
* Passes the markdown test suite 100%
* Is already is Debian and OpenSUSE repositories without any file renaming

v.s. python-markdown:

* Requires a full Python distribution at runtime
* Has "a few known issues" not conforming with the test suite
* Is comparatively slow
* Ships without any man pages
* and most notably: recently had it's "markdown" binary renamed in Fedora to
markdown_py[1]

[1]:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python-markdown.git;a=commitdiff;h=2ff5e4af8eaae64f8d73a686cc913c9208d0e52f

In my mind, this seems to make a pretty strong case for using discount to
provive "/usr/bin/markdown". I'm just not so sure about the sample programs.
Any suggestions? OpenSuse and Debian seem to package them as-is, without any
renames, although they still seem far too generic to me.

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