On 8 May 2018 at 15:00, Diane Trout <di...@ghic.org> wrote: > 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> > 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/ > [...] >
Maybe you can use pandoc as a `setup_depends` and convert it to an acceptable format at build time?
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