On 8/11/07, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Noah Slater wrote: > > > > Of course most of us work on computers - because they make us more > > efficient. How many emails have you sent this week - how long would > > that have taken you with a pen and paper? (telephone networks are > > computers so you cant cound ringing someone) > > Since I am lazy, I would be unlikely to write anything with pen and > paper. But I am not too lazy to update a ChangeLog! > > For me, source tarballs represent the complete open source product so > the ChangeLog should be included. This could be generated via some > tool based on information from the version control system. > > I am still using open source software written long ago (e.g. 'tar') > which is still quite valuable outside of whatever version control > system (SCCS?) that John Gilmore used. FYI, a couple of years ago I > worked for John Gilmore and he is definitely not involved with > software development any more. > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > >
The problem I have with generating ChangeLog, is that it will be BIG, for example, bmpx generate at the moment ChangeLog from svn log, and it ends up to 2.6 MB. Also, I have seem plenty of projects having empty ChangeLog, NEWS etc... just to be able to get INSTALL autocopied. This isn't a proposal to replace the gnu option, more of a more strict foreign. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>