From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Sat Sep 10 19:06:51 2005
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:06:51 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in
 read.spss, package foreign?]
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>>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu>
>>>>>     on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:32:29 -0700 (PDT) writes:

    >>  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.
    >> 

    TL> In which case a Changlog entry in DESCRIPTION would be a
    TL> very nice addition, and would have the advantage of not
    TL> requiring changes to packages.

yes *and* does allow slightly more flexibility with almost
no cost, as Fritz confirmed.

And, BTW, Gabor,  NEWS and ChangeLog are not at all the same
thing and it would be silly to urge users to one of them.
At least 'ChangeLog' is a well defined format for emacs users
that can very quickly be updated semi-automagically
("C-x 4 a" when you're in file  foo.R with function myfun(.)
 autogenerates a neat entry in a ChangeLog file);
but then really people should be allowed to use other formats
for good reasons.

Martin



[Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in read.spss, package foreign?]
Martin Maechler