There are several reasons why we should prefer markdown-it-py over mistletoe:
- Get identical rendering results in SearXNG's `/info` pages and the SearXNG's
project documentation which is build by Sphinx-doc.
In the Sphinx-doc we use the MyST parser to render Markdown and the MyST
parser itself is built on top of the markdown-it-py package.
- markdown-it-py has a typographer that supports *replacements*
and *smartquotes* (e.g. em-dash, copyright, ellipsis, ...) [1]
- markdown-it-py is much more flexible compared to mistletoe [2]
- markdown-it-py is the fastest CommonMark compliant parser in python [3]
[1] https://markdown-it-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#typographic-components
[2] https://markdown-it-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html
[3] https://markdown-it-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other.html#performance
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
cache_property has been added in py3.8 [1]
To support cache_property in py3.7 the implementation from 3.8 has been
copied to compat.py. This code can be cleanup with EOL of py3.7.
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.cached_property
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
This patch implements a bolierplate to share content from info-pages of the
SearXNG instance (URL /info) with the project documentation (path /docs/user).
The info pages are using Markdown (CommonMark), to include them in the project
documentation (reST) the myst-parser [1] is used in the Sphinx-doc build chain.
If base_url is known (defined in settings.yml) links to the instance are also
inserted into the project documentation::
searxng_extra/docs_prebuild
[1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
