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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Makefile
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:13:01 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> >> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
> >>> A better approach for that would be to remove HISTORY from CVS and build 
> >>> it only when the release tarball is made.
> 
> > I think the only reason HISTORY and INSTALL are in CVS is because we
> > want people running CVS during beta to have changes docs and install
> > instructions that don't require them to pull down a new tarball each
> > time or read the docs via a web site.
> 
> That argument seems a bit silly for HISTORY, seeing that it's generally
> not up-to-date during beta testing.  As for INSTALL, those instructions
> don't change fast enough to surprise beta testers, so I'm not convinced
> about it either.

Actually, recent releases had a current HISTORY before beta started. 
However, if they are downloading the beta tarballs, the HISTORY/INSTALL
files are already generated.  It would only be useful for CVS pulls
during beta though.

One idea would be to replace file content with a single URL that points
to the development docs, then when the tarball is built, it can
overwrite those files.

Marc?

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