Why is INSTALL missing?

Why is INSTALL missing?

[Tobias Gerdin]

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Good evening,

While preparing to build Guile v2.2.0 I noticed that the file INSTALL, which is referred to from README, was removed by Neil in e4c39847a2b083829d111fcae4e9459d2f8a4ba1 in 2009 or so. Why was this so? (I realise it would just be a copy of the standard GNU one, but still.)

Attached you will also find a trivial patch against the v2.2.0 tag bumping the version number in README.

-Tobias


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From 701b974fea56033e2fd98b98222292cb764fd769 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Gerdin <tgerdin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 21:38:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update version number

---
 README | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 92d786c06..8b196ce67 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is version 2.0 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language library.
+This is version 2.2 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language library.
 Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, packaged
 as a library that can be linked into applications to give them their own
 extension language.  Guile supports other languages as well, giving
-- 
2.11.0 (Apple Git-81)

Re: Why is INSTALL missing?

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 04 Apr 2017 22:01, Tobias Gerdin <tgerdin@gmail.com> writes:

> While preparing to build Guile v2.2.0 I noticed that the file INSTALL,
> which is referred to from README, was removed by Neil in
> e4c39847a2b083829d111fcae4e9459d2f8a4ba1 in 2009 or so. Why was this
> so? (I realise it would just be a copy of the standard GNU one, but
> still.)

This is because the file is added by autotools.  I think you will find
INSTALL is present in the tarball.

Cheers,

Andy