[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 1/3] readme: Convert from Markdown to RST

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Wed Aug 14 12:23:27 CEST 2019


Hi Kieran,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:58:15AM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> The Documentation and top-level README both serve to provide information
> to new developers and users of libcamera.

"... serves to provide information to both ... " ?

> Currently our README.md is sparse, and should be expanded with more
> useful information such as build requirements as well as compilation
> directions.
> 
> Any information provided in the README also serves a purpose in the main
> documentation and website and could be a cause of duplicated content.
> 
> To allow direct integration of the top level README document into our
> sphinx documenation (and thus the libcamera.org website) convert the

s/documenation/documentation/

> README.md into ReSTructured text format.

Good idea. Do you use a tool to render .rst content to check patches
such as this one ?

> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  README.md  |  9 ---------
>  README.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 README.md
>  create mode 100644 README.rst
> 
> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 45ae3a41062e..000000000000
> --- a/README.md
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
> -# libcamera: A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS
> -
> -To build and install:
> -```
> -  meson build
> -  cd build
> -  ninja
> -  ninja install
> -```
> diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..9a8261ac8502
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/README.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> +===========
> + libcamera
> +===========
> +
> +**A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS**
> +
> +To build and install:
> +
> +::
> +
> +  meson build
> +  cd build
> +  ninja
> +  ninja install

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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