On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 16:44 +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 16:54 Diane Trout <di...@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
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