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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tom Lane	432735cbf3	Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore. Providing this information as plain text was doubtless worth the trouble ten years ago, but it seems likely that hardly anyone reads it in this format anymore. And the effort required to maintain these files (in the form of extra-complex markup rules in the relevant parts of the SGML documentation) is significant. So, let's stop doing that and rely solely on the other documentation formats. Per discussion, the plain-text INSTALL instructions might still be worth their keep, so we continue to generate that file. Rather than remove HISTORY and src/test/regress/README from distribution tarballs entirely, replace them with simple stub files that tell the reader where to find the relevant documentation. This is mainly to avoid possibly breaking packaging recipes that expect these files to exist. Back-patch to all supported branches, because simplifying the markup requirements for release notes won't help much unless we do it in all branches.	12 years ago
Magnus Hagander	8633aa9c3f	Fix doc links in README file to work with new website layout Per report from Colin 't Hart	12 years ago
Tom Lane	c6299515c5	Back-patch replacement of README.CVS with README.git. In older branches, also git-ify the "make distdir" rule.	15 years ago
Tom Lane	8d355d7bbf	Fix the makefiles to fail cleanly if Perl is needed but not present. This used to work as intended, but got broken some time ago (a quoted empty string is not an empty string), and got broken some more by the changes to generate ecpg's preproc.y automatically. Given all the unprotected uses of $(PERL) elsewhere, it seems best to make use of the $(missing) script rather than trying to ensure each such use is protected individually. Also fix various bits of documentation that omitted to mention Perl as a requirement for building from a CVS pull. Per a complaint from Robert Haas.	16 years ago
Tom Lane	5cb902cbfc	Some further editorializing on README.CVS.	22 years ago
Neil Conway	c9d8901b3f	Improvements to README.CVS	22 years ago
Bruce Momjian	0bcc2beb4a	Remove HISTORY and INSTALL. Have them generated by the tarball scripts. Add README.CVS to help CVS folks find this information.	22 years ago

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