Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, 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. > > Confused here, but how "up to date" is HISTORY in CVS to start with? I > don't go out of my way to watch for them, but commits to HISTORY don't > seem to be all that often to start with ... and how many ppl actually look > at the HISTORY file *except* at release time?
Usually I modify HISTORY during beta, then move it to release.sgml, but I could reverse that and do edits in release.sgml then regenerate and copy HISTORY. It is mostly during beta. We could throw a URL into the HISTORY file telling people where to look for the generated release notes. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
