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

I wrote:
> Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> writes:
>> How about adding URL's for the online versions of HISTORY & README's (or
>> their rough equivalents - perhaps the online version of the latest
>> 'Appendix E. Release Notes' would be sufficient?) to the INSTALL file?

> Actually, what I had in mind was to replace the dynamically-generated
> HISTORY and README files with small text files that contain those
> URL references.

Here's a proposed patch against HEAD for this. It also gets rid of some
rather quaint instructions for using Netscape to construct these files ;-)

Barring objection, I'd like to update all the live branches this way
before the upcoming releases. I'm tired of having to worry about
whether the release notes will build as plain text; but that worry
won't go away unless we nuke the text output in all the branches.

regards, tom lane