Textile instead of 'Pier Syntax'

[Daniel P Zepeda]

Hi Folks,

I was fairly excited to stumble across Pier as this is a system that I  
was actually intending to write for a client. There are a ton of CMS's  
out there, but none of them as far as I know allow one to edit in  
place the entire system, other than say CMSbox, which is out of reach  
where I live.

I envisioned a little more Ajax+Scriptaculous goodness in the update  
process, and also a preview-accept transaction in the editing process.  
Since I use Ruby on Rails in my day job, I was intending to use that  
as well, since I know it well, and I'm only getting started using  
Seaside for toy projects.

Pier seems to be pretty much what I need out of 'out of the box',  
excepting the points I made above. However, I'm curious why 'Pier  
Syntax' was developed instead of using an already popular markup like  
Textile? Are there any plans to use other markups besides 'Pier  
Syntax' ? I haven't looked at the code yet, but if there are no plans  
for any other Markup, how hard do you think it would be to implement a  
different markup besides Pier Syntax for a professional programmer  
that knows some Smalltalk, say like, oh, I don't know, Textile? :)

Thanks!

DZ