On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Fred Drake <fred@fdrake.net> wrote:
My perspective, for what it's worth, is that while I find Markdown a horrible pain,
But wait, it's worse. Unlike ReStructuredText, there's no Markdown standard. In my last job, I had to use a suite of tools (from a single company that I won't name but is easy to guess :) ) for which no 2 tools used the same dialect of Markdown. :( ...
So while I'm all for encouraging developers to prefer reStructuredText, I'm in favor of supporting Markdown as a long_description format. The format for a README file just doesn't seem such a big deal that alienating potential community members is worth it.
Which begs the question, which dialect of Markdown are you suggesting we support. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton http://jimfulton.info