From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
To: Russel Winder <russel@winder.org.uk>, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
        Graham Whaley <graham.whaley@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel docs: muddying the waters a bit
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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:46:48 +0200
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2016, Russel Winder <russel@winder.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 15:23 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
>>   1) the python version (asciidoc) appears to have been abandoned in
>>      favor of the ruby version. 
>
> This is I think true, however the Java-based tool chain Asciidoctor is
> I believe the standard bearer for ASCIIdoc these days, albeit called
> ASCIIdoctor.

If we're talking about the same asciidoctor (http://asciidoctor.org/)
it's written in ruby but you can apparently run it in JVM using
JRuby. Calling it Java-based is misleading.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center