From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Generating HISTORY file
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 22:20:35 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200012200320.WAA17188@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012200004460.1000-100000@peter.localdomain>
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Peter, I thought I saw a recent CVS commit from you stating that you now
> > can generate the HISTORY file from the SGML source. Have you tested it?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is it being done automatically?
>
> No.
>
> It's basically a semi-simplified way of creating an HTML page with the
> release notes and saving it with Netscape. It was more or less a
> by-product of automating the INSTALL build. It's still nothing to get
> excited about as you would still have to manually polish the resulting
> text file in some ways.
>
> If you want to try it out run gmake HISTORY in doc/src/sgml. I've also
> tried lynx and w3m for HTML to text conversions but their results where
> inferior in several ways.
OK, same old way I did it long ago.
>
> > Also, I would like to get the release dates into the HISTORY file. Do
> > you know an easy way to do that?
>
> I can't think of anything more particular than just writing it in there
> somewhere.
I have it in the SGML. I just need it transfered into the HISTORY file.
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