Re: Re: Generating HISTORY file

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Peter, I thought I saw a recent CVS commit from you stating that you now
> > can generate the HISTORY file from the SGML source. Have you tested it?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is it being done automatically?
>
> No.
>
> It's basically a semi-simplified way of creating an HTML page with the
> release notes and saving it with Netscape. It was more or less a
> by-product of automating the INSTALL build. It's still nothing to get
> excited about as you would still have to manually polish the resulting
> text file in some ways.
>
> If you want to try it out run gmake HISTORY in doc/src/sgml. I've also
> tried lynx and w3m for HTML to text conversions but their results where
> inferior in several ways.

OK, same old way I did it long ago.

>
> > Also, I would like to get the release dates into the HISTORY file. Do
> > you know an easy way to do that?
>
> I can't think of anything more particular than just writing it in there
> somewhere.

I have it in the SGML. I just need it transfered into the HISTORY file.

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