Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 3bf5c16f15e61b66e6509b401d60ee61ff33507b
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2014-02-11T01:48:23Z
Releases: 9.1.12
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.

Files

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doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml modified +7 −14
doc/src/sgml/generate_history.pl deleted +0 −58
doc/src/sgml/.gitignore modified +0 −4
doc/src/sgml/Makefile modified +10 −23
doc/src/sgml/release.sgml modified +1 −4
doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.sgml modified +1 −15
GNUmakefile.in modified +1 −3
HISTORY added +6 −0
README modified +1 −2
README.git modified +6 −6
src/test/regress/README added +3 −0
src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES modified +0 −1