Re: NEWS file format

Sam Steingold <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jan 2018 10:35:28 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> * Bruno Haible <[email protected]> [2018-01-12 11:31:33 +0100]:
>
> Should we convert the new part (2.50 and newer) of the NEWS file to this
> format, and add a Makefile.devel rule that generates a NEWS-2.50.html file
> from it? (It's not worth spending time on the parts of this file that
> apply to 2.49 and older.)

No.
The benefit is marginal and the deviation from the common practice is
huge.
News files should be readable as is.
If the standard and simple outline/markdown format is not readable to
you, please do not exacerbate the situation by introducing
preprocessing.


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