On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 16:44 +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 16:54 Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> wrote:
Hi,
I was building a package where I had a README.org file, which
setuptools couldn't find.
It listed .md as a valid format, so I was wondering if org-mode was
sufficiently plain text to be added to the list of accepted README file
formats?
What's org-mode? Sounds like an Emacs thing based on what I have heard Emacs people say. :)
If it is an Emacs thing then I would vote "no" since that's very editor-specific and I suspect trying to support every plaintext file format is never-ending.
Well yes, it's certainly most powerful, flexible, and feature complete with emacs, but there is work on org-mode support in vim and sublime. Additionally org-mode syntax is supported by GitHub, GitLab, and pandoc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode#Integration There's also an argument that org-mode is a good lightweight markup language in and of itself. http://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ Since it is breaking out of its source community I thought it at least worth asking about. Out of curiosity, do you have a feeling for how popular a lightweight markup language needs to be before it gets added to the list of setuptools recognized formats? Thanks, Diane