Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> On 2/3/14, 8:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That's a very fair question. It's a reasonable bet that pretty much
>> nobody actually looks at the text versions of either HISTORY or
>> regress_README anymore. It's conceivable that somebody somewhere makes
>> use of the text version of INSTALL when trying to get PG going on some
>> bare-bones platform ... but really, can't they look it up on the net?
>> How'd they get the PG sources they're installing, anyway?
> I think having an INSTALL file is good form, and it costs us little to
> maintain it.
> The other files could be removed, IMO.
That seems like a reasonable compromise to me. The HISTORY file is
certainly the worst pain-in-the-rear among these, since it's generated
from files that we change constantly, and so we're always tripping over
the link restrictions.
regards, tom lane
--
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
