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

[Philip Kaludercic]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> From 9d973044a346860d3fc6164fe75ad8cd9721a595 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>>> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 12:34:40 +0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH] Render Org documentation in a plain-text README-elpa file
>>>
>>> * elpa-admin.el (elpaa--make-one-tarball-1): Call elpaa--write-plain-readme.
>>> (elpaa--write-plain-readme): Add new function.
>>
>> That looks OK, feel free to push that to `elpa-admin`.
>> Comments:
>> - you'd get more bonus points by arranging for the code
>>   to (re)use the existing plain text (which is currently produced later
>>   when (re)generating the HTML page, so it would take a fair bit of
>>   code reorg to get that.  In the mean time, a FIXME comment seems
>>   in order).
>> - Your code may end up "rendering" a Markdown file for no obvious benefit
>>   since the rendering is a no-op (tho I think this is very hypothetical
>>   and likely can't happen because of other constraints).
>> - We might also add a `README-elpa` file when the readme file has a name
>>   not recognized by `package--get-description`.
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
>
> Any update?

Sorry, this got buried in my inbox, I will try to update the patch today.