[PATCH app/xcursorgen v3] Update README for gitlab migration

Matthieu Herrb matthieu at herrb.eu
Wed Nov 14 06:41:39 UTC 2018


On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 08:50:11PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > 3rd choice - this seems to work for me, shipping a file named README in the
> > tarball without any Makefile modifications:
> 
> Yikes! Scary git-fu!
> 
> Maybe we can see if cmark-gfm is available? That's the github fork that
> parses more useful common mark syntax files, which should be starting to
> show up in distros (it's in Debian at least).
> 
>         $ cmark-gfm --to plaintext README.md > README

I'd prefer avoiding depending on tools that aren't widely available
yet to make release. I can't find it on Ubuntu LTS. (There is the
original cmark in OpenBSD ports but I didn't find it on Ubuntu LTS
either).

> 
> if we actually want to generate a plaintext README file? Until then,
> just copy it?

I prefer to just ship README.md alone. As Ray say people are used to
that now.
-- 
Matthieu Herrb
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