On May 25, 3:05 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> changelog, where it will scroll off the bottom and be forgotten. I'd > > > This is my main point, as well as for those who in the future will > > just be learning hg and find going the right directory etc. > > difficult. > > sage -hg log |more > > ?? > >
Example: r-2.10.1.p1 Changes for .p0: hg log version changeset: 33:66f45042d4b4 user: David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> date: Tue Feb 16 20:54:03 2010 +0000 summary: #8285 Update R's spkg-install to work on Solaris SPKG.txt version === r-2.10.1.p0 (David Kirkby, February 16th 2010) === * Several items all covered by #8285 * Added the undocumented option "--without-ICU" on Solaris, as that allows R to build - otherwise it fails. I suspect the ideal solution would be to add the ICU library from http://site.icu-project.org/ but this option does allow R to build. * Ensure SAGE64 will add the -m64 option on any platform, not just OS X as before. * Removed all references to the option --with-iconv=no, as R needs iconv now - it is no longer optional - see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8191 * Implement a test for X on Solaris, as the previous test in spkg-install would always fail on Solaris, as Solaris lacks the header file checked for, despite the fact X support works fine. So now I check for a library on Solaris. Are you really suggesting that the commit message should be this long? Maybe they should be! But I've never seen one that long in Sage, so at least there is a defacto rule that commit message are short short short. This sort of thing should be somewhere, and to be honest having it all in one place is very nice. I agree that other messages I've seen (both in SPKG.txt or commit messages) are less informative. And I reiterate that I recall somewhere a suggestion on sage-devel that commit messages should be one line long. Does no one else remember that? Or did it mean it should not have any carriage returns, but be as long as it wants (in which case this was not clear at all)? - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
