Dnia 2013-09-24, o godz. 23:50:20
Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> napisał(a):

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:15:15 +0200
> Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Dnia 2013-09-24, o godz. 19:49:33
> > hasufell <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> > 
> > > I wonder if it would make any sense to take the effort to convert
> > > markdown docs to html format before installing them.
> > 
> > What for? The point of markups like Markdown is for the text to be
> > readable as plain text. Converting it to HTML goes against
> > this principle.
> 
> Principle or not, we shouldn't force our users down a particular way to
> reading them; as that's not what our meta-distribution stands for.

We shouldn't either work on working for every fancy a single user may
have. If there's a real benefit from converting markdown to HTML,
please show me one.

As far as I can see it, we're either talking about:

1) replacing semi-readable Markdown with unreadable HTML that will
require special tools for proper display,

2) installing duplicate files (the same data in markdown and in HTML),

3) adding some more ugly awful magic that will make binary packages
even less useful.

That said, I'd rather see people using *tools* to display Markdown
rather than converting everything 90s-style.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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