From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA visibility Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:47:29 +0400 Message-ID: <50941541.7050309@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351882065 4399 80.91.229.3 (2 Nov 2012 18:47:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kjambunathan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 19:47:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TUMHW-0005fz-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:47:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUMHN-0004ra-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUMHL-0004qu-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUMHI-00063c-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from forward16.mail.yandex.net ([95.108.253.141]:43199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUMHI-00063J-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp16.mail.yandex.net (smtp16.mail.yandex.net [95.108.252.16]) by forward16.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 69481D217B4; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 22:47:28 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from smtp16.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp16.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 32D1B6A04AE; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 22:47:28 +0400 (MSK) Original-Received: from 5x166x242x229.dynamic.spb.ertelecom.ru (5x166x242x229.dynamic.spb.ertelecom.ru [5.166.242.229]) by smtp16.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id lRZOKMIl-lRZCHSdI; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 22:47:27 +0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1351882048; bh=dNumDaZWUaATmhRjPhrh3VRjpnWDB5aVAf4ETcqzQXo=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wosq2S4U9v5Krnb/hetJ9OP60xn3pc96ZNVVXG3Dc+cN3wwsriUVHksQ7H9RkBlOD uXNe57zirOP+swteo4IsLCt0juE4ywF4ucYiNIiQT7T6hXiq23NIYl//q9+QT7FDgp IAt7AvC+odhlG5e2mXLR9HEINsYnOk1WgATupehE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 95.108.253.141 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154638 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> I.e. we need to replace the READMEs with more structured files which >>> can be easily turned into acceptable HTML (no need to be fancy, here) >>> as well as easy to render acceptably in Emacs (extra bonus points if >>> that same format can end up being used as a replacement for Info ;-). >> Org can be exported to HTML, Plain text (ASCII) and texi. > > So far, Org, ReST, Markdown, and Texinfo sound like the best > options, indeed. I think you might as well support several formats, to cover the existing README files. That would complicate showing these files in the package.el interface in a fancy way, but I think that's a reasonable tradeoff. At least two of the above formats look quite reasonably in plain text.