From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:32:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87h74ztshe.fsf@gmx.de> <871qw31ois.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee038ipt.fsf@gmx.de> <87o7z61v59.fsf@gmail.com> <87ilpbzlq5.fsf@gmail.com> <87r13vqwki.fsf@protesilaos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27942"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-05-21) Cc: Tim Cross , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Protesilaos Stavrou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 18:54:09 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o0Qqm-00073G-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:54:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54094 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0Qqk-0000uZ-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0QpP-0007vI-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:41363) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0QpJ-0003hw-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.84.37.119]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000087C55.0000000062A619B1.00006079; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:52:01 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Protesilaos Stavrou , Tim Cross , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r13vqwki.fsf@protesilaos.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -2 X-Spam_score: -0.3 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06=1.592, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291100 Archived-At: * Protesilaos Stavrou [2022-06-11 14:17]: > What you describe as "garbage" package authors consider essential to > providing high quality documentation in a variety of formats. The > README.org is converted into an Info manual and has a corresponding HTML > page both on GNU ELPA and the author's (me) website: I do not doubt good intentions. I use the word "garbage" from a viewpoint of user who does not know Org mode and who is interested to understand package description. Markup impairs the understanding of package descriptions. Markup does not belong in package description. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/