You can of course have both. Generate a ChangeLog file from the subversion logs and have a subversion hook update this everytime a change is made... Would that keep everyone happy?
Andy On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:23, Vincent Torri wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > >> I really dislike ChangeLog files, they predate any source control >> version. Now CVS/SVN/Git/Whatever nicely replaces that. So generating >> it automatically is the way to go. > > of course I disagree. Mainly because of an experience i had with > autotools: for the EFL, I had to check if I didn't use macros that > were > too recent, or on the contrary if they were old enough to replace > them by > newer ones. If I had to look at all the svn logs, i doubt that i would > have finished that work today (there are a lot of macro / features in > autoconf, automake and libtool). > > On the contrary, I just opened the ChangeLog files, did a search in > it, > and it was quite fast for me to find the informations. > > That's why I think that, if it helped me, a changeLog can help other > people. Note that I agree with raster's position here: noting in a > ChangeLog only the most important changes. For example, even if I had > committed in eet repo (only formatting and autotools stuff, iirc), i > didn't modified the ChangeLog (Well, actually, i added one entry, to > mention that the compilation can be done with Visual Studio). So the > ChangeLog does not grows too much and has only important cahnges in > it. > > That's my opinion as a user of a tool. And i think that there are a > lot of > users who don't know how to use cvs, svn or git and are quite happy to > have some ChangeLog files. > > Vincent > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
