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RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while insta
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Jun 2022 01:18:46 +0000 |
> > There are lots of nice, rendered or renderable
> > fancy formats, including Org and Markdown, HTML,
> > PDF, Info/TexInfo.
> >
> > Packages should, I think, be able to provide
> > whatever they like, as long as they also provide
> > some simple README.
> >
> > (And again, that simple, plain-text README need
> > not try to say or do all that another format
> > might do. IMO.)
>
> While what you say makes sense, can we reasonably expect the package
> authors to provide an extra README file for every single package?
I think we can. But only if we ask for it.
> If it was the case, this thread would simply not
> show up. ASCII README would be always available.
No, not if we've never requested that it be included.
If we request it then it'll be provided more often,
I expect.
___
[ But we can't even get vanilla Emacs itself to add
README's for Emacs releases on MS Windows anymore,
as it says we can (in the overall Windows README).
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-05/msg01378.html
]
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, (continued)
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Drew Adams, 2022/06/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Drew Adams, 2022/06/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package,
Drew Adams <=
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/05
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Drew Adams, 2022/06/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/06
- Re: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/06
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Drew Adams, 2022/06/05
- Re: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/06
- RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Drew Adams, 2022/06/06
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Yoni Rabkin, 2022/06/08