Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> And if your POV is shared by the Org developers, then I ask again: why
> is the Org manual, which weighs in at 23,000 lines, is being written
> in Org?

The original reason is simply

https://list.orgmode.org/AANLkTin=gUscE4znd4pYY85X9d2wLkC+JADVcDN8AeoJ@mail.gmail.com/
>>> I was just wondering... Is the manual written in texinfo markup, or is there
>>> some obscure .org file behind the manual still?
>>> 
>>> If it really is written in texinfo, is this not a shortcoming? Org mode is
>>> capable of generating html and pdf etc. Why not use it for the manual then
>>> to set the example and show its powers!?

and then

https://list.orgmode.org/m2fu8942pr.fsf@tsdye.com/
>>> It's a real pleasure to know that Org can now eat its own dog food (and
>>> to see Carsten's memorable phrase on the Org mode list again). Many
>>> thanks for picking up this orphaned project. I look forward to the day
>>> it serves as the source for org.texi.

So, now we have our manual written in Org mode and we never had reasons
to come back to texi.

Best,
Ihor