Re: [PATCH] {master} docs: move chapter on automake history out of main manual

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 02/14/2012 09:46 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 02/12/2012 11:38 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> The chapter on Automake history, while certainly interesting and
>> even fascinating, does not truly pertain to a reference manual,
>> so move it out from there and into its own dedicated file.  This
>> change is made more advisable and pressing by the fact that such
>> and "Automake history" chapter hasn't been updated since the 1.9.6
>> release, so it has been becoming less faithful and useful since
>> then.
>
> Pushed.
> 
And now I've uploaded this new "manual" to the Automake web pages:

  <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/history>

And updated the home page accordingly:

Index: automake.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/automake/automake/automake.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 automake.html
--- automake.html       7 Dec 2011 17:13:58 -0000       1.18
+++ automake.html       14 Feb 2012 21:20:51 -0000
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@
 <em>info automake</em> at the shell prompt.
 </p>

+<p>
+In case you are interested or merely curious, a brief
+<a href="/software/automake/history/automake-history.html"><!--
+-->history of Automake</a> (up to roughly 2007) is available on our site;
+again, <a href="/software/automake/history/index.html">more formats</a>
+are offered for download or on-line reading.
+</p>
+
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Regards,
  Stefano