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diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md index 08c80332..0856690f 100644 --- a/Contributing.md +++ b/Contributing.md @@ -5,6 +5,19 @@ The code is distributed under the BSD 2-clause license. Contributors making pull requests must agree that they are able and willing to put their contributions under that license. +Goals & non-goals of Pygments +============================= + +Python support +-------------- + +Pygments supports all supported Python versions as per the [Python Developer's Guide](https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches). Additionally, the default Python version of the latest stable version of RHEL, Ubuntu LTS, and Debian are supported, even if they're officially EOL. Supporting other end-of-life versions is a non-goal of Pygments. + +Validation +---------- + +Pygments does not attempt to validate the input. Accepting code that is not legal for a given language is acceptable if it simplifies the codebase and does not result in surprising behavior. For instance, in C89, accepting `//` based comments would be fine because de-facto all compilers supported it, and having a separate lexer for it would not be worth it. + Contribution checklist ====================== |