"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email protected]> writes:

> It should work with these changes.  They were motivated by trying to use
> only a NEWS.md with the following cfg.mk:

Is it possible to just make things work by default?  Is there any
problem to simply have logic that checks for NEWS.md and prefers that,
if it exists, otherwise fall back to NEWS?  Having to put things in
cfg.mk for a common setup like using NEWS.md seems unnecessary to me.

I will be happy to test this with some packages as soon as this lands in
gnulib.  Will recent automake be required, or merely opt-in?  My trick
with README -> README.md symlink works with ancient tooling, and if at
all possible, it would be nice to use a NEWS -> NEWS.md symlink, or just
rename to NEWS.md.  What would you recommend?

While we can debate and criticize the various incompatible markdown
styles, my perception is that text files named *.md with markdown
styling is the new default, comparable to *.txt 20-30 years ago.  I
think it is a good improvement, and we shouldn't stand in the way.

/Simon

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