VisDoc is now an open source project

Posted by Jesse Freeman | Filed under Announcements

Source http://visiblearea.com/blog/bin/view/VisibleArea/VisDoc_is_now_an_open_source_project

Some time ago I decided to rewrite VisDoc from the ground up. VisDoc had started as a personal itch, and over time had grown uncomfortably large, with all text parsing done in Cocoa, and without any unit tests. A recipe for disaster, and something that was taking longer and longer to fix with every incoming bug report (of which I did not get too many, luckily). I decided to do the new VisDoc in Perl, a language I have learned to love when working on Foswiki. Text parsing comes naturally with Perl, and it is very easy to create unit tests for every bit…

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Permalink | February 7th, 2010

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