Updated README.txt to README.md (#1375)

* H5Lexists docs: Removed reference to 1.8.16 since the change is the 1.8.x releases, HDFFV-11289

* H5Oget_info_by_name, name can be any object, not just a group

* Converted README.txt to README.md and updated files referring to README.txt to README.md.

* removed references to README.txt

* updated MANIFEST

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/bin/bbrelease b/bin/bbrelease
index cdb8678..a45be2e 100755
--- a/bin/bbrelease
+++ b/bin/bbrelease
@@ -320,9 +320,9 @@ ln -s `pwd` $tmpdir/$HDF5_IN_VERS || exit 1
 test -f Makefile && mv Makefile $tmpdir/Makefile.x
 cp -p Makefile.dist Makefile
 
-# Update README.txt and release_docs/RELEASE.txt with release information in
+# Update README.md and release_docs/RELEASE.txt with release information in
 # line 1.
-for f in README.txt release_docs/RELEASE.txt; do
+for f in README.md release_docs/RELEASE.txt; do
     echo "HDF5 version $VERS released on $release_date" >$f.x
     sed -e 1d $f >>$f.x
     mv $f.x $f
diff --git a/bin/h5vers b/bin/h5vers
index 8f75df1..04d5d03 100755
--- a/bin/h5vers
+++ b/bin/h5vers
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ use strict;
 # ./H5public.h or ./src/H5public.h.
 #
 # If the version number is changed (either `-s' or `-i' was used on
-# the command line) then the first line of the README.txt and RELEASE.txt files
+# the command line) then the version line of the README.md and RELEASE.txt files
 # one directory above the H5public.h file is also modified so it looks
 # something like: This is hdf5-1.2.3-pre1 currently under development.
 # The AC_INIT macro in configure.ac will also change in this case to be
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ while ($_ = shift) {
 }
 die "mutually exclusive options given\n" if $set && $inc;
 
-# Determine file to use as H5public.h, README.txt,
+# Determine file to use as H5public.h, README.md,
 # release_docs/RELEASE.txt, configure.ac, windows/src/H5pubconf.h
 # config/lt_vers.am and config/cmake/scripts/HDF5config.cmake. 
-# The README.txt, release_docs/RELEASE.txt, configure.ac, 
+# The README.md, release_docs/RELEASE.txt, configure.ac, 
 # windows/src/H5pubconf.h, config/lt_vers.am and
 # config/cmake/scripts/HDF5config.cmake
 # files are always in the directory above H5public.h
@@ -178,9 +178,9 @@ die "unable to read file: $LT_VERS\n" unless -r $file;
 my $HDF5CONFIGCMAKE = $file;
 $HDF5CONFIGCMAKE =~ s/[^\/]*$/..\/config\/cmake\/scripts\/HDF5config.cmake/;
 die "unable to read file: $HDF5CONFIGCMAKE\n" unless -r $file;
-# README.txt
+# README.md
 my $README = $file;
-$README =~ s/[^\/]*$/..\/README.txt/;
+$README =~ s/[^\/]*$/..\/README.md/;
 die "unable to read file: $README\n" unless -r $file;
 # release_docs/RELEASE.txt
 my $RELEASE = $file;
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ if ($LT_VERS && $version_increased) {
 #  close FILE;
 }
 
-# Update the README.txt file
+# Update the README.md file
 if ($README) {
   open FILE, $README or die "$README: $!\n";
   my @contents = <FILE>;
diff --git a/bin/release b/bin/release
index e40c3d3..e71a38e 100755
--- a/bin/release
+++ b/bin/release
@@ -572,9 +572,9 @@ ln -s `pwd` $tmpdir/$HDF5_VERS || exit 1
 test -f Makefile && mv Makefile $tmpdir/Makefile.x
 cp -p Makefile.dist Makefile
 
-# Update README.txt and release_docs/RELEASE.txt with release information in
+# Update README.md and release_docs/RELEASE.txt with release information in
 # line 1.
-for f in README.txt release_docs/RELEASE.txt; do
+for f in README.md release_docs/RELEASE.txt; do
     echo "HDF5 version $VERS released on $release_date" >$f.x
     sed -e 1d $f >>$f.x
     mv $f.x $f