What about providing changes.html in the tarball?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Paolo Carlini wrote:

> today, a second after having closed as invalid a C++ report, it occurred to
> me that we don't have a "Release Notes" file proper in the tarball, whereas
> changes.html, as available on the web site, seems almost perfect for this
> purpose too.

gcc/NEWS (generated by contrib/gennews) includes text versions of the 
online release notes.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk