While no one will guarantee this for you, I can't foresee any reason why you won't be able to open a text file 30 years from now.
I've opened text files from the mid 90's (so ~20 years ago), and they are readable and work as expected. The text file format existed prior to that, so it has a really good track record for archival purposes. Whether or not you will be able to render RST is another question. You could archive a copy of Python and its libraries required for the rendering, but there's no guarantee that the rendered output would be anymore - or any less useful - than text files. No one can tell whether PDF, or HTML, or ePub, or any of the other rendered outputs will be able to be opened then. 2017-07-31 7:55 GMT+02:00 egalitarian <[email protected]>: > I'd like to write documents for long-term archival. > > For example, I want to write diary and read it after 3 decades. > Perhaps, I get to live another 100 years due to technological advances. > > Will I be able to write diary or take note in reStructuredText and render > it in 3 decades or 100 years? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sphinx-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
