Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes: > Collin Funk wrote: >> > Another matter is the preference order if there are multiple files? >> > This will be opinionated but probably mostly irrelevant since few people >> > have multiple files with different content. *.org, *.md, *.adoc, *.rst, >> > NEWS? >> >> My opinion is we should use whatever one is a regular file, i.e., not a >> symbolic link. > > Well, my opinion is that > > * We should not propagate the use of symbolic links in git repositories, > because it causes real practical problems to users on Windows, with > very small benefit.
That was my feeling too, but it has worked for a couple of years for me with README -> README.md, and people build libidn/libidn2 on Windows (there are even Windows CI/CD jobs running). What exactly are the problems with symlinks for Windows? Is this older Windows versions? > * It's OK to support only NEWS and NEWS.md. MarkDown is what is thousands of > young programmers are learning (because of GitHub — we may like it or > not), > not Org, not AsciiDoc, not ReStructured Text. Agreed. But if it is really easy to support *.org for Org/outline too, that works better in Emacs, I don't see why not. And there seems to be some GitLab/GitHub/Forgejo support for non-markdown modes. /Simon
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