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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:48:24 -0500
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README
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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.


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