Remove NEWS.help (manual backport of r84533).

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7b4c6a3c743179f00c393e02f982e155a2d7ef1b..f9914b7893274829dc88528c4a9976619188059a 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 Python News
 +++++++++++
 
-(editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
-
 What's New in Python 2.7.1?
 ===========================
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.help b/Misc/NEWS.help
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 856785f..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.help
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-                                                       -*- text -*-
-
-If you edited Misc/NEWS before it was converted to ReST format skimming this
-file should help make the transition a bit easier.  For full details about
-Docutils and ReST, go to the Docutils website:
-
-    http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
-
-To process Misc/NEWS using Docutils, you'll need the latest docutils
-snapshot:
-
-    http://docutils.sf.net/docutils-snapshot.tgz
-
-Docutils works with Python 2.2 or newer.
-
-To process NEWS into NEWS.html, first install Docutils, and then run
-this command:
-
-    python .../docutils/tools/rst2html.py NEWS NEWS.html
-
-Here ".../docutils" is the directory into which the above snapshot was
-extracted.  (I hope this recipe will change for the better.)
-
-David Goodger made a change to the allowable structure of internal
-references which greatly simplified initial conversion of the file.
-
-The changes required fell into the following categories:
-
-* The top-level "What's New" section headers changed to:
-
-    What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 1?
-    =================================
-
-    *Release date: DD-MMM-2002*
-
-  Note that the release date line is emphasized, with a "*" at each
-  end.
-
-* Subsections are underlined with a single row of hyphens:
-
-    Type/class unification and new-style classes
-    --------------------------------------------
-
-* Places where "balanced" single quotes were used were changed to use
-  apostrophes as both the opening and closing quote (`string' -> 'string').
-
-* In a few places asterisks needed to be escaped which would otherwise have
-  been interpreted as beginning blocks of italic or bold text, e.g.:
-
-    - The type of tp_free has been changed from "``void (*)(PyObject *)``"
-      to "``void (*)(void *)``".
-
-  Note that only the asterisks preceded by whitespace needed to be escaped.
-
-* One instance of a word ending with an underscore needed to be quoted
-  ("PyCmp_" became "``PyCmp_``").
-
-* One table was converted to ReST form (search Misc/NEWS for "New codecs"
-  for this example).
-
-* A few places where chunks of code or indented text were displayed needed
-  to be properly introduced (preceding paragraph terminated by "::" and the
-  chunk of code or text indented w.r.t. the paragraph).  For example:
-
-    - Note that PyLong_AsDouble can fail!  This has always been true,
-      but no callers checked for it.  It's more likely to fail now,
-      because overflow errors are properly detected now.  The proper way
-      to check::
-
-          double x = PyLong_AsDouble(some_long_object);
-          if (x == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
-              /* The conversion failed. */
-              }