Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Atkinson <andyatkinson(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, samay(at)tembo(dot)io
Subject: Re: An improved README experience for PostgreSQL
Date: 2024-02-28 19:07:30
Message-ID: AB5180DD-4F1E-447B-BE5A-471CBBDB839F@yesql.se
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> On 28 Feb 2024, at 19:51, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2024-Feb-28, Joe Conway wrote:
>
>> Markdown is pretty readable as text, I'm not sure why we need both.
>
> *IF* people don't go overboard, yes. I agree, but let's keep an eye so
> that it doesn't become an unreadable mess. I've seen some really
> horrible markdown files that I'm sure most of you would object to.

Absolutely, I agree. Considering the lengths we go to to keep our code readable I’m not worried, I expect that a markdown README would end up pretty close to the txt version we have today.

./daniel

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