Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [209.114.132.154]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2JN8gN19072; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:08:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2JN8bt07897; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:08:37 -0500 (EST) To: Peter Eisentraut cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-docs@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] src/test/regress/README duplicates SGML material In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut message dated "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:13:36 +0100" Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:08:37 -0500 Message-ID: <7894.985043317@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Archive-Number: 200103/98 X-Sequence-Number: 532 Peter Eisentraut writes: > Tom Lane writes: >> Is it really necessary to maintain identical text in the test README >> file and in the SGML docs? I'm sorely tempted to remove the README >> rather than double-editing yet again. > It's referenced from the INSTALL file, because people presumably won't be > able to read the HTML during installation. Actually, the README was once > generated from the HTML version. It can be done again, but the exact > process it kind of hazy. If you've got any hints, I could really use a clue right about now ... otherwise I'll have to do these LOCALE edits twice ... regards, tom lane