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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [DOCS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:49:35 +0100
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On 02/05/2014 07:27 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Noah Misch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Right.  I mean, a lot of the links say things like "Section 26.2"
>>> which obviously makes no sense in a standalone text file.
>>
>> For <xref>s normally displayed that way, text output could emit a URL, either
>> inline or in the form of a footnote.  For link targets (e.g. SQL commands)
>> having a friendly text fragment for <xref> sites, use the normal fragment.
> 
> True.  If we're going to keep these things around, something like that
> would avoid some annoyances for documentation authors.  But I still
> think we ought to just nuke them, because who cares?

I dont care about HISTORY and even less so about regress_README but I
would prefer to keep INSTALL because I know that people do look at that
one...


Stefan


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