My perspective, for what it's worth, is that while I find Markdown a horrible pain, there are a lot of people who pick it up before picking up Python, and tools like GitHub and BitBucket encourage (and make it easier to add) README.md to a project. For someone who isn't familiar with reStructuredText, it's an easier on-ramp.
So while I'm all for encouraging developers to prefer reStructuredText, I'm in favor of supporting Markdown as a long_description format. The format for a README file just doesn't seem such a big deal that alienating potential community members is worth it. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fred at fdrake.net> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
