bake: Big pass on bake performance. - Reduce the amount of data passed between processes. - Make inter-process data simple objects to make it easier to test with alternatives to pickle. - Make sources have the basic requirement to be able to find a content item from an item spec (path). - Make Hoedown the default Markdown formatter.

import os


def slashfix(path):
    if path is None:
        return None
    if isinstance(path, str):
        return path.replace('/', os.sep)
    fixed = []
    for p in path:
        fixed.append(p.replace('/', os.sep))
    return fixed