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: Fri, 25 May 2018 10:51:12 -0700 Message-ID: <87vabbd3ov.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87in7belj8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527270791 11987 195.159.176.226 (25 May 2018 17:53:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 17:53:11 +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 Fri May 25 19:53:07 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 1fMGtn-00030G-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 19:53:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46216 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMGvs-0007d2-GK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 13:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMGut-0006sr-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 13:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMGup-0003ux-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 13:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45391 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fMGuo-0003tn-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 13:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fMGse-0001q3-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2018 19:51:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wp/M/sf17y7HFyXeIpoaxoSNE9M= 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:225716 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky writes: > On 25 May 2018 at 12:40, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> The package format section of the README in Elpa already mentions: >> >> - 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 shows up on the GNU ELPA web page of the package, at least: > > https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/yasnippet.html (scroll down to "News") Oh, interesting. It looks like the server does look for either a NEWS file or a ";;; News:" section in the package file, but it doesn't seem to do any further parsing. I guess it would be an additional (boring) bit of work to write elisp to try to extract version-specific sections from that text. Eric