Re: [DOCS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

On 02/05/2014 07:27 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> 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