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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Makefile
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:00:52 -0500
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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.

			regards, tom lane

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