Re: RFC: Adding a SECURITY.md document to the Binutils
"J.W. Jagersma via Gdb" <[email protected]>
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On 2023-04-11 17:00, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote: >> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:23:05 -0400 >> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] >> From: Simon Marchi <[email protected]> >> >> On 4/11/23 09:29, Nick Clifton via Gdb wrote: >>> Hi Eli, >>> >>>> Thanks. A minor nit: does it have to be a .md file? Can it be a .txt >>>> file instead? >>> >>> Sure - no problem. In fact until you asked I just assumed that .md == .txt. >>> But I see no need for any markup capabilities so using .txt files is fine with me. >> >> FWIW, I like .md files, they read well as just text, but are also >> displayed nicely when viewed in contexts like git web views. I don't >> see any downsides to using it. > > The markup gets in the way, unless you use a viewer that supports > markdown. > > But I thought Nick said he didn't intend to use any markup? if so, we > are talking plain text anyway, and a .md file name will just mislead. Markdown was designed to be easily readable as plaintext; the syntax is very similar to how one would format an email. In fact, the document as proposed is already a valid Markdown document. For consistency though, I'd suggest to not use any file extension at all. None of the top-level text files currently have an extension.