Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
> [crossposting dev list, since it's relevant]
> 
> one of the issues to be resolved on the new mod_perl site (read:
> documentation) is to provide a mechanism for generating the Changes and
> (optionally Contributors) list. With mod_perl 1.x source this has been
> done manually, and the same with the mod_perl guide. Both, the source
> code and documentation may benefit from automating this process.
> Especially since the documentation project's goal is to have many
> maintainers. So making it easier on them with the Changes by providing
> an infrastructure would be of a big help.
> 
> On the dev list we were talking about automatic generation of the
> Changes file. Here is an entry from modperl-2.0/todo/utils.txt:
> 
> - Changes files should be autogenerated from cvs logs.
> 
>    http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/ already does that, but we have an
>    extra wish list:

I have a hacked copy of cvs2cl (somewhere) that does some of those extra things.  it 
was a royal
pain, but I might be able to dig it up (I totally forget where it is).

> 
> Another alternative is to maintain a Changes file for each document or
> docset, like the guide does. This will give a better added value to
> users but require more work from the maintainers.

if we want to do that from within the document itself we can use the $Log$ CVS tag.  
personally, I
think it's rather ugly, but if it's at the bottom or something...

here's an example from the formmail.pl nms script

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
#
# $Id: FormMail.pl,v 1.40 2002/02/22 12:08:30 nickjc Exp $
#
# $Log: FormMail.pl,v $
# Revision 1.40  2002/02/22 12:08:30  nickjc
# * removed stray ';' from output HTML
#
# Revision 1.39  2002/02/21 09:17:29  gellyfish
# Stylesheet elements will not be added if $style is empty
#
# Revision 1.38  2002/02/14 08:45:04  nickjc
# * fixed silly error in body attribute checking

--Geoff

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