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

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>>>> I think we should actively encourage using it for most types of
>>>>> documentation, certainly for README type files.
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>
>> Hear, hear!
>>
>> It also takes a relatively long time to load Org mode, so opening a
>> README.org-type file for the first time will always cause an annoying
>> pause.
>
> That's true but wouldn't it be possible to extract the font-lock/faces
> related parts in a separate file with no dependencies which can be
> loaded quickly enough?  I mean, the purpose would only be to display org
> and markdown READMEs with the highlighting intended by the package
> author but there's no point in enabling the gazillon of other features
> (from editing to time-tracking to spreadsheet computations) those
> packages might provide in addition.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

I can't understand why you are suggesting to emulate (or enable) Org
syntax highlighting in package description.  I'm again saying that the
README.org should be converted (exported) to plain text on package
installation (I won't recommend to do this server, since its probably
SaaSS and would increase server load).

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Akib Azmain Turja

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