Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:32:15 +0000 (13:32 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:32:15 +0000 (13:32 -0500)
commite2b73f4a4de6c2df6a1e623ad06b42f1bb2471ad
tree2dba7aa8cba100d0f798a98e2eb7f680c70e81e0
parent8ddf9c1dc020d569d3a0aa22e3269a64e8a4ef23
Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.

Up to now, our distribution tarballs have included a plain-text form
of the installation.sgml chapter.  The rationale for that was that a
recipient might not have either ready internet access or HTML-viewing
tools; a theory that seems downright quaint today.  Maintaining the
ability to generate this file is not without cost, because it puts
special requirements on installation.sgml that are often overlooked.
Moreover, we are moving in the direction of making our distribution
tarballs be pure git snapshots for traceability/reproducibility
reasons; including generated files doesn't fit into that plan.
Hence, let's just drop INSTALL and remove the infrastructure for
generating it.  The top-level README will now recommend visiting
our website to see the installation instructions.  As a useful
side-effect, we can get rid of README.git which has provoked
confusion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231220114927.faccqqprmuyrzdip@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
13 files changed:
GNUmakefile.in
Makefile
README
README.git [deleted file]
doc/src/sgml/.gitignore
doc/src/sgml/Makefile
doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml
doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
doc/src/sgml/meson.build
doc/src/sgml/standalone-install.xml [deleted file]
doc/src/sgml/standalone-profile.xsl [deleted file]
src/pl/plperl/README
src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES