From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 14:48:29 -0700 Message-ID: <8736yejdg2.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87in7belj8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87vabbd3ov.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527371383 19070 195.159.176.226 (26 May 2018 21:49:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 21:49:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 23:49:39 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fMh4E-0004s2-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2018 23:49:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMh6L-0004RK-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2018 17:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMh66-0004R1-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2018 17:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMh63-00005s-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2018 17:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37762 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMh63-0008WN-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2018 17:51:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fMh3u-0004Xa-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2018 23:49:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZoIU+H+abHF1BRqCnKaQUUCpCCA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225763 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> - A "News:" section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the >>>> user-visible changes of each version. >>>> It's not clear to me that anything is actually done with that >>>> information. > > It's used, but indeed it should be used more. > > Some additional places where it could be used come to mind: > - in the automatic email notification sent to gnu.emacs.sources > - when viewing a package in package-list-packages > - as suggested by Christopher, when upgrading an installed package. Is there a standard format for differentiating versions? The first and third use that you mention above would benefit from being able to parse out a specific range of versions. A quick scan of NEWS files in Elpa shows a fairly random assortment of approaches to formatting versions and dates...