Re: README.md (was: migrating to GitLab)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:08 AM Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am Sonntag, den 17.05.2020, 10:01 +0200 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 9:55 AM Urs Liska <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > although I have admittedly been pretty much silent about all this I
> > > would like to ask about getting access to the LilyPond repository
> > > in
> > > the new place as well. My user name there is urs.liska.
> > >
> > > One thing I noted while setting up my account is that we don't have
> > > a
> > > README.md in the root directory. Is this by any conscious decision
> > > or
> > > simply because nobody has done it or started a discussion yet?
> >
> > We have README.txt (generated from a .texi in Documentation/topdocs),
> > and ROADMAP. I think it would be a great idea if someone would
> > reformat the contents into a README.md file in the root of the tree.
>
> My offer was to write a README.md after some discussions, but of course
> reworking an existing resource is an even better approach.
>
> Do I understand you correctly that README.txt is generated upon
> compiling LilyPond? So where does it end up, I couldn't find a
> README.txt neither in the source repository nor in the installation
> directory. Does it only end up in the documentation (which I haven't
> built locally)?

Documentation/topdocs/README.texi

it's shipped in the root directory of our source tarballs.


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