Paul Jakma <[email protected]> writes:

> Just wondering if the below answers the objections? I.e. it is still a
> TeX renderable document via pandoc, and still contains TeX even, so
> clearly easy to convert back to TeX in worst case. However, the MD
> just makes it a bit more readable viewed 'raw' from the repo, and
> accessible to a wider group.

I don't really care about this point - markdown seems ok.  But it's not
reasonable to depend on pandoc, because it's written in Haskell, and
there are no portable implementations (*).  If you aren't on a CPU/arch
where there are bootstrap kits, it's too hard.  So I think he decision
should be made assuming unportable toolchain components do not exist.

* From the pkgsrc Makefile:

# GHC requires GHC to build itself. Formerly we could work around this
# bootstrapping problem by creating a special archive containing C
# sources compiled from Haskell sources, but that's no longer
# possible. So we have to prepare stripped-down binaries sufficient to
# bootstrap compilers for each platforms. If you want to build them
# yourself, follow an instruction in the ./TODO file.
BROKEN_EXCEPT_ON_PLATFORM+= \
        Darwin-*-powerpc \
        FreeBSD-*-i386 \
        Linux-*-x86_64 \
        NetBSD-*-i386 \
        NetBSD-*-x86_64 \
        SunOS-5.11-*

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