>>>>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:33:03 -0700 (PDT), >>>>> Thomas Lumley (TL) wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> I personally put NEWS, WISHLIST and THANKS files in the 'inst' >> directory of all my source packages. This has the effect of copying them to the >> top level of the built version so that they are accessible from R via: >> > I'm not sure that WISHLIST and THANKS need to be available to people who > haven't installed the package. NEWS, on the other hand, really does. > One option (if it doesn't turn out to be too much work for the CRAN > maintainers) would be to have an optional Changelog field in the > DESCRIPTION file giving the relative path to the file. This would mean > that maintainers would not all have to switch to the same format. > eg for foreign > Changelog: ChangeLog > and for survey > Changelog: inst/NEWS > This might be enough to make it easy for CRAN to display these when the > maintainer provides them. Standard location or a mechachanism like the one you describe are both similar amount of work (and not much at all), the HTML pages are generated by perl and I have the parsed DESCRIPTION file there, i.e., using a fixed name or the value of the Changelog field is basically the same. .f ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel