Thomas Klausner writes: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:52:00AM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > > Rather than do any additional exploding, I'd like to propose the > > additional kwalitee test "has_changes". I've noticed that a > > percentage (5-10%) of dists don't have a changes file, so it can be > > hard to know whether it's worth upgrading, or more importantly which > > version to add dependencies for. > > I like it
So do I. But I think the name is misleading. When I read the subject and first two sentences of Adam's proposal I thought has changes would be a test for actually having changes, rather than for having a file which lists changes. Calling the test has_changelog would be much better, since that makes it obvious was is being tested. > For a start, I will only check for a file called /changes/i. After the > run, we'll see how many percent use it and try to find a regex that > matches more dists. As others have pointed out, ChangeLog is also popular and given special treatment by Cpan Search; please allow CHANGES or ChangeLog. Smylers -- May God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world, so that we can do what others claim cannot be done.
