On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:03:48 +0000 Andrew Williams <a...@handyande.co.uk> said:
> 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? i'd have no problem with this. as for 1.0 for stuff (and 0.17.0 for e17) i would like to keep good changelogs kept - as when a release *IS* made then the changelog is already up to date for the release tarball. > 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 > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
