OK, I dug harder into the Text::Markdown::Hoedown module which uses XS to load some C module that converts markdown to HTML. I was able to figure out how to get it to work with with "fenced" code (code surrounded by a pair to triplet backticks), which is what the GitHub markdown dialect recognizes. I'll release the next version of the module without Markdent, no Moose required.

Now I can get complaints from people who only like pure perl modules. :)

For those interested, back of the envelope calculations in my head say the Hoedown module converts about 5 times faster than Markdent based on my page load times on uncached content.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop Pontiff Deacon Curate Priest Vicar";
$nysus = $PM . ' ' . $MCF;
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"Now I can get complaints from people who only like pure perl modules."

Nah, just from those who don't like having to install Dist::Zilla and a thousand plugins for installation ;)

ps. I'm not knocking Dist::Zilla, I just personally find that it adds a ton of bloat to more-often-than-not a very small distribution.

Hi Steve, I think you are suffering from (and spreading) the common misunderstanding that Dist::Zilla is distributed with the distributions it is used to build. Dist::Zilla is simply a distribution-building and -packaging tool, designed for CPAN, and the distributions it builds are simply conformant CPAN distros. No bloat whatsoever, unless you count a dist.ini file that's sometimes left in the distro.

Here's the entire MANIFEST from Dancer2::Logger::LogAny, which is packaged and distributed with Dist::Zilla:

# This file was automatically generated by Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Manife
+st v6.010.
Changes
LICENSE
MANIFEST
META.json
META.yml
Makefile.PL
README.md
cpanfile
example/README
example/app.pl
example/config.yml
lib/Dancer2/Logger/LogAny.pm
t/00-load.t
t/config.yml
t/logger.t
xt/pod-coverage.t
[download]

Installers of this module have no need of Dist::Zilla or its dependencies. (And note that the source repo only has two extra files, a couple of .ini config files.

(What you may be recalling is the pain a developer can feel when wanting to contribute to a distribution that is packaged with Dist::Zilla, when you have to have it installed to see that your changes lead to a correct build.)

Hope this helps!




The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

You can only pry Dist::Zilla from my cold, dead hands.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar Abbot Bishop Pontiff Deacon Curate Priest Vicar";
$nysus = $PM . ' ' . $MCF;
Click here if you love Perl Monks

The module uses Markdent to parse the markdown files which requires Moose. Converted files are cached so Moose is only called when a file is updated so there is no real performance hit. Although it will require more dependencies, of course. I looked at other options other than Markdent but couldn't find one that supported the GitHub dialect of markdown out of the box.