[ESS] bug: exclude version control stuff for stable versions

[Rodney Sparapani]

Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> This is what I see as well, both in the zip and the tgz file. Only 
> hidden file is a.gitignore.
> 
> It would be nice however to fix the permissions on the directories 
> inside doc, only OS X Leopard I get
> dr-xr-xr-x  4 khansen  staff   136B Jul 24 06:05 html
> dr-xr-xr-x  4 khansen  staff   136B Jul 24 06:05 info
> dr-xr-xr-x  4 khansen  staff   136B Jul 24 06:05 refcard
> In addition all the files in the doc directory is not writable by the user.
> 
> Kasper

Hi Kasper:

The read-only decision was intentional.  I don't remember why, but this
has been going on for the last 5-10 years.  Do the users want that
decision re-visited?

Rodney