Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>>> A better approach for that would be to remove HISTORY from CVS and build
>>> it only when the release tarball is made.
> I think the only reason HISTORY and INSTALL are in CVS is because we
> want people running CVS during beta to have changes docs and install
> instructions that don't require them to pull down a new tarball each
> time or read the docs via a web site.
That argument seems a bit silly for HISTORY, seeing that it's generally
not up-to-date during beta testing. As for INSTALL, those instructions
don't change fast enough to surprise beta testers, so I'm not convinced
about it either.
regards, tom lane