[Scons-dev] README in repository

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi guys,

On 09.10.2012 19:39, William Deegan wrote:

> Russel,

>

>

> On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

>

>> I think we have to take a vote on whether to switch the read me file at

>> the top of the repository hierarchy from plain text to

>>

>> a) ReStructured Text, README.rst

>> b) Markdown, README.md or README.markdown

>>

>> I have a slight preference fro Markdown due to the way it handles header

>> markup compared to ReStructured Text. On the other hand Markdown is very

>> Ruby, GitHub, whilst ReStructured Text is very Python.

>>

>> Why the change? So that the read me file look reasonable on the

>> BitBucket page.

>>

>> I can do the markup once a decision is made so there is no need for

>> anything other than a decision.

> I vote for .rst  (mainly because I'm already using it on a number of other projects and it's python'y)


+1 from me for reST (*.rst). I use it quite a lot recently...at home as 
well as at work.


Dirk




> -Bill

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