From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>,
Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>,
20403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:04:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmm7aH5uQVz+Rwun4h-RZncaytkaYefc+Yjh7jvmYyn++A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eeytnffd.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > The change I'd actually like to see is for NEWS to just be a symlink
> > to the appropriate NEWS.xx file, which should exist under that name
> > from the outset of development on version xx.
>
> That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch. Symlinks
> complicate VCS operations in general.
Does that hold even if NEWS is a symlink also on the release branch?
If not, I'm thinking that the scripts for distributed tar balls could
then easily get rid of the symlink and move NEWS in place.
> If we want a better NEWS, I'd suggest to introduce a new mode, which
> will inherit from Outline mode, but will support some sort of
> "include" directive. Then we could have a NEWS file that just
> "include"d the versioned files, and Emacs would display their
> contents, perhaps given some user command to expand a given version's
> news. As a bonus, this would let us have a single NEWS file, from
> user's POV, like other (smaller) projects do.
That could also work.
(FWIW, I also think it would be nice to switch to org-mode.)
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-31 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 6:14 bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) Ulrich Windl
2019-09-30 0:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-30 20:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-31 9:56 ` Phil Sainty
2019-10-31 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 16:04 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-10-31 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-31 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 5:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-01 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-11 19:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-04 7:16 ` bug#20403: Antw: " Ulrich Windl
2019-11-04 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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