What about providing changes.html in the tarball?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Paolo Carlini wrote:

> Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 
> >gcc/NEWS (generated by contrib/gennews) includes text versions of the 
> >online release notes.
> >  
> >
> ... but ;)  why is there and not in the toplevel? It includes, for 
> instance, news
> about libstdc++-v3, not only about the compiler(s) proper

Historical reasons; I implemented gennews to avoid the situation of some
news items going in online release notes and others going in NEWS
(renaming the old file to ONEWS), and the old file had been gcc/NEWS;  
later, the generation was moved into the release script and NEWS removed
from CVS, without changing its location.  So simply no-one ever made the
decision to move the file, there were just changes to how it was created.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk