Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Tag: REL7_4_STABLE

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:17:32PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > > The only problem with removing HISTORY from CVS is that we will not have
> > > > an easily reable list of release changes _until_ we package the release.
> > > > Perhaps we should keep HISTORY in CVS, but regenerate it on tarball
> > > > packaging, and INSTALL too.
> > >
> > > What about having them generated from some Make target, so the curious
> > > user could generate it on his own, and is also built by Marc's
> > > ficticious package-prep target?
> >
> > He would have to have the SGML tools installed, and that isn't
> > trivial/likely.
>
> True, but Peter could very easily have HISTORY generated and on the web
> page as part of his docs build process ... then 'HISTORY' in CVS would
> just be a URL to that online version, while 'HISTORY' in a release would
> be the full HISTORY file ... ?

Yep, I just came to the same conclusion.

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