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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2014-02-10 20:48:30 -0500 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2014-02-10 20:48:30 -0500 |
| commit | 432735cbf32bd35f3daefdf59a2f78a473f7c880 (patch) | |
| tree | ecd68673f794d07832c454e6c41aa2c7b0291ef1 /src/tools | |
| parent | 6141983fb4da3577efdceca74c06209448b9c76b (diff) | |
Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore.
Providing this information as plain text was doubtless worth the trouble
ten years ago, but it seems likely that hardly anyone reads it in this
format anymore. And the effort required to maintain these files (in the
form of extra-complex markup rules in the relevant parts of the SGML
documentation) is significant. So, let's stop doing that and rely solely
on the other documentation formats.
Per discussion, the plain-text INSTALL instructions might still be worth
their keep, so we continue to generate that file.
Rather than remove HISTORY and src/test/regress/README from distribution
tarballs entirely, replace them with simple stub files that tell the reader
where to find the relevant documentation. This is mainly to avoid possibly
breaking packaging recipes that expect these files to exist.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because simplifying the markup
requirements for release notes won't help much unless we do it in all
branches.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES index b2ad848053b..c066f17487e 100644 --- a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES +++ b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ For All Releases (major, minor, beta, RC) o update doc/src/sgml/release.sgml o run spellchecker on result o add SGML markup - o check if 'gmake HISTORY.html' works for <link>s * Update timezone data to match latest zic database (see src/timezone/README) |