Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

On 08/02/14 19:05, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On 2/3/14, 8:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> That's a very fair question.  It's a reasonable bet that pretty much
>>> nobody actually looks at the text versions of either HISTORY or
>>> regress_README anymore.  It's conceivable that somebody somewhere makes
>>> use of the text version of INSTALL when trying to get PG going on some
>>> bare-bones platform ... but really, can't they look it up on the net?
>>> How'd they get the PG sources they're installing, anyway?
>> I think having an INSTALL file is good form, and it costs us little to
>> maintain it.
>> The other files could be removed, IMO.
> That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.  The HISTORY file is
> certainly the worst pain-in-the-rear among these, since it's generated
> from files that we change constantly, and so we're always tripping over
> the link restrictions.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>
How about adding URL's for the online versions of HISTORY & README's (or
their rough equivalents - perhaps the online version of the latest
'Appendix E. Release Notes' would be sufficient?) to the INSTALL file?


Cheers,
Gavin