Support more versions of pandoc

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Support more versions of pandoc

Closed this issue a month ago · 10 comments

Hi Eric,

the user guide indicates that the only supported version of pandoc is 2.3 which is from 2018. Are there any plans to officially support newer versions of pandoc?

Thanks a lot in advance

Answer 1 · 2024-11-06T15:43:01.000Z

PR accepted! But joke aside I'll try to have a look at it when I have a moment :-).

Answer 2 · 2024-11-06T16:32:55.000Z

Thank you! It’s not super urgent. In fact, we are using specs2 in version 2.4 and 4.x together with a newer version of pandoc (3.1.x iirc) and have yet to run into issues. Is there anything in particular to look out for?

Answer 3 · 2024-11-06T16:36:03.000Z

specs2 in version 2.4 and 4.x
version 2.4 of specs2?

Answer 4 · 2024-11-06T18:03:01.000Z

Oh, 2.4 is for pandoc I suppose.

Answer 5 · 2024-11-06T19:31:15.000Z

We are using both an ancient 2.4 version of specs2 in one branch a less ancient 4.0.8 version of specs2 in a different branch. In both cases we simply rely on the system installed pandoc which happens to be version 3.1 or slightly newer.

Answer 6 · 2024-11-06T19:40:00.000Z

Wow, I had no idea that such an old version was still running!

Answer 7 · 2024-11-07T16:32:24.000Z

Yeah, it's still going strong. So strong, as it turns out, that it does markdown processing on its own without pandoc. This renders my previous comment about how specs2 2.4.17 works great with pandoc 3.1 moot. Sorry for the confusion.

It seems that pandoc started to be necessary somewhere between 2.4.17 and 3.6.3. I couldn't narrow it down further because the releases in between failed to resolve properly (due to scalaz) ;)

Answer 8 · 2024-11-07T17:21:23.000Z

Yes, I remember switching from a Markdown Scala library to Pandoc at some stage because I had plenty of bugs with the existing libraries. Eventually shelling out to Pandoc seemed to work a lot better.

To come back to this issue, I haven't seen an issue with the latest specs2 4.x version and Pandoc. Besides updating the User Guide what should I do?

Answer 9 · 2024-11-07T19:07:33.000Z

Ah yes that makes sense.
Well, if you don’t notice any issues then I don’t see why a simple update of the user guide shouldn’t suffice. I guess I expected hard to overcome limitations since the user guide very much emphasises this one specific version. But even better if that’s not the case!

Thank you so much for taking the time to look into this!

Answer 10 · 2024-11-12T09:23:51.000Z

I updated the user guide to remove the mention about the supported pandoc version and changed CI so that I always test with the latest version. So if there's a breakage I will hopefully know about it.