From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: RFD: please drop ChangeLog updates Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:30:08 -0400 Message-ID: <21676570.1219941008413.JavaMail.root@web20> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219941188 24532 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2008 16:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 18:33:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYkQo-0005vT-Gl for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYkPp-0000ix-VG for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYkOm-0000Rj-2q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:31:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYkOj-0000Qf-VF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35677 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYkOj-0000QY-Qy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mta16.mail.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.211]:62997 helo=mta16.adelphia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYkOj-0004QR-V3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from web20 ([68.168.75.48]) by mta16.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20080828163010.DVYY10601.mta16.adelphia.net@web20>; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:30:10 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Sensitivity: Normal X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7529 Archived-At: ---- Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Reasons: > > * Much more detailed and inherently correct information can be gotten from > > git log -- libguile/ > > git log -- test-suite/ > > etc. > > * The ChangeLog duplicates the git log information if done correctly. Hence > it requires double work for the committer. Guile is distributed as a tarball, not a git repo. Does it make sense to create the ChangeLog from the git log at make dist time? -Dale