[flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi everyone, This morning, I have inadvertently updated gnustep-base on my Debian machine, which remained at version 1.19 since april this year To my surprise, I have found at least two unannounced changes: - the property list format is now serialized directly in XML, which is somehow

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, This morning, I have inadvertently updated gnustep-base on my Debian machine, which remained at version 1.19 since april this year To my surprise, I have found at least two unannounced changes: - the property list format is now serialized directly in XML, which is somehow useful

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 25 Nov 2009, at 20:21, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: Hi everyone, This morning, I have inadvertently updated gnustep-base on my Debian machine, which remained at version 1.19 since april this year To my surprise, I have found at least two unannounced changes: - the property list

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 25 Nov 2009, at 22:39, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 25 Nov 2009, at 20:21, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: Hi everyone, This morning, I have inadvertently updated gnustep-base on my Debian machine, which remained at version 1.19 since april this year To my surprise, I have

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Hi everyone, This morning, I have inadvertently updated gnustep-base on my Debian machine, which remained at version 1.19 since april this year To my surprise, I have found at least two unannounced changes: - the property list format is now serialized directly in XML, which is

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread David Chisnall
On 25 Nov 2009, at 22:39, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: There are actually three levels of change information ... NEWS ... just the headlines ReleaseNotes ... some more detail ChangeLog ... everything Maybe you are right and we shouldn't bother with NEWS? I'd be interested to know what

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Nicola Pero
I'd be in favour of ditching NEWS and ChangeLog. ChangeLog has less information, in a less useful format, than the svn logs and is a hold-over from CVS not storing repository-wide change information sensibly. With svn log, you can get a log of change messages at any granularity that you

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread David Chisnall
On 26 Nov 2009, at 00:50, Nicola Pero wrote: I'd be in favour of ditching NEWS and ChangeLog. ChangeLog has less information, in a less useful format, than the svn logs and is a hold-over from CVS not storing repository-wide change information sensibly. With svn log, you can get a log of

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread hansfbaier
I still haven't seen a convincing argument for it.  Any of the information that people write in the ChangeLog file they could also write in the commit log.  It is impossible to make a commit without writing a log message, it is easy to make a commit without editing the ChangeLog (you could add

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 25 Nov 2009, at 23:23, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, Hi everyone, This morning, I have inadvertently updated gnustep-base on my Debian machine, which remained at version 1.19 since april this year To my surprise, I have found at least two unannounced changes: - the property