Where to put supplementary docs?
Magnus Ihse Bursie
magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri May 23 17:34:27 UTC 2025
On 2025-05-23 02:58, Kim Barrett wrote:
> On 5/21/25 4:18 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> We should allow any reasonable type of document.
>
> What's a "reasonable type of document"? I think there should be
> restrictions
> on the document format. In particular, binary formats come and go, and we
> should probably avoid such without careful consideration.
>
Maybe the list of "reasonable" documents includes just markdown, pure
text, pdf, and html (in roughly that order of preference)? Most other
formats can easily be converted into any of these, and if we encounter
some kind of document that could not, we can discuss extending the list.
/Magnus
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