Re: README.md

[David Kastrup]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

If the source is .texi, there should be automated tool chains available
(possibly via Docbook?) for creating md.  While that may sound like
overkill just for the README, the tools would also permit washing things
like the Changes document into the Wiki(?).

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David Kastrup