On 18 July 2010 21:23, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> As somebody who occasionally releases (admittedly useless) packages on > Hackage, it's really quite irritating that there isn't an easy way to say > what changed. > > (As for scanning a repo to find changes, that's very low-level, you'd need a > backend for every possible version control system, and for those people who > don't even use source control, it's not going to work at all. Not to mention > people who use source control, but don't have anywhere to put a repo > online...) > Hi Andrew I'll look to adding textual diff to my Cabal diff tool - Precis. Currently it parses the modules in a package and compares metrics on the source files between project revisions to identify semantic changes. Unfortunately the results are often very poor in practice - for the QuickCheck revisions that Don posted above it didn't generate any differences. Though lower tech, textual diffs might actually be better than semantic ones with false negatives. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
