Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package

[Michael Albinus]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Tassilo,

>>>> I disagree entirely with you.  Org mode is highly complicated,
>>>> obscure (I've never managed to get a feel for what it does), and
>>>> difficult to learn (I've never managed it).  A text file is far
>>>> easier to read for those not familiar with org.  We're talking about
>>>> READMEs here.  They're typically 20 to 100 lines long.  A text file
>>>> is ideal for these.
>>>
>>> 1+. README is a text file which is consulted in order to get
>>> information about the related software. There's no rule to visit it
>>> by Emacs only.
>
> People nowadays write README.org and README.md files instead of
> plain-text READMEs because the packages' repositories are hosted on some
> forge (sr.ht, github, gitlab, gitea, whatever) which supports rendering
> those formats in a nice way.  So the choice of format is natural for
> package authors.  And they frequently contain markup like headings,
> bullet lists, bold, italics, and code snippets which simply look much
> better than their text-only alternative (even in their
> editing/non-rendered versions).

Not everybody uses Github/Gitlab/<you name it> infrastructure
exclusively. There are dinosaurs like me, who simply inspect tarballs
and alike.

I have no problem if there are structured README.org or README.md files
in parallel. But a README file should be plain text.

> Bye,
> Tassilo

Best regards, Michael.