RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package

[Ihor Radchenko]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> 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? If it
was the case, this thread would simply not show up. ASCII README would
be always available.