>>>>> Thomas Lumley writes: > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> How about if there were just a standard location and name such as inst/NEWS, >> inst/WISHLIST, inst/THANKS (which has the advantage that they are >> automatically >> made available in the built package under the current way packages are >> built)
> The problem is that there *isn't* a standard location. As Robert > Gentleman has pointed out, if you only maintain two or three packages > it isn't too bad to change them to some new layout, but if you are the > bioconductor project it gets painful quite quickly. > Also, there are good reasons for having NEWS in the top level > directory. Nearly everything that isn't an R package does this, > because it's a useful standard. And similar things could be said about Emacs users with ChangeLog files in top-level package directories ... I like the suggestion about using a Changelog (or whatever it would be called) field in the package DESCRIPTION meta-data. If we have that, we could not only use this for repository-side presentation of the package, but also install such info and have a simple show_package_change_log() function ... -k > -thomas > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
