[m-rev.] diff: Fixup notes about updating the version number.

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 03:43:37PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 03:38:39PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Branches: master, version-14.01-branch
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixup notes about updating the version number.
> > > > >
> > > > > The version number is kept in VERSION, however since README is
> > > no-longer
> > > > > dynamically generated we must also update the version number there.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > When and why did that happen?  Also, if README is no longer
> dynamically
> > > > generated why is the template, .README.in, still present?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Whoops. I eas looking for README.in and didn't see it, (because dot
> files
> > > are hidden).  So I thought things had changed when they hadn't.
> > >
> > > Also, we could make it not-automatically generated
> >
> >
> > That's annoying, then it has to updated manually.
> >
> > and then we could name it
> > > README.md and format it to be readable via github.com
> >
> >
> > Why can't you just have README.md anyway?  (Or will github prefer
> > one named README?)
>
> I think we can have README.md anyway.


The content should be different anyway.  .README.in is intend for inclusion
in the source distribution.  README.md probably wants to be a combination
of it and README.bootstrap.

Cheers,
Julien.
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