Re: INSTALL file

Greetings,

* Michael Paquier (michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 01:41:33PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > I'm not sure that I'm really following this, because we aren't pointing
> > to the development documentation, just the 'current' documentation, and
> > that seems fine, and there's links on that page to the other versions of
> > the page for each major version of PostgreSQL, in case someone pulled an
> > older branch or such.
>
> Imagine for example that Postgres switches from ./configure to cmake,
> this makes the current version of the documentation invalid on
> back-branches, still they refer to it. If we target that stuff for
> beginners, they may just look into those docs, without thinking that
> they actually need the version of the docs with the branch checked out.

I'd say we're targeting beginner developers, not beginner computer
users.

That said, I suppose it wouldn't be all that hard to have a different
version of the README for each branch and to keep it updated as we make
releases.

One point I'll make though is that we do need to have the README checked
into git, since that's where most people are getting the source.

If we go down this route, the master branch should probably link to the
regularly built devel documentation, so that if/when we do make such a
change, we'll point people at the updated documentation too.

Thanks!

Stephen