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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:15:56
Message-Id: 200407211415.49115.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 by Toby Dickenson
1 On Wednesday 21 July 2004 13:58, Toby Dickenson wrote:
2 > No need for imagination here.... you can do much of that today with:
3 >
4 > emerge --changelog -p -u world
5
6 An XML-based ChangeLog adds semantic meaning, making it much more useful.
7 It's not too difficult for (most ;-) humans to make sense of our current
8 ChangeLogs, but tools are always going to be limited in accuracy and
9 capability.
10
11 There's also the added side-effect that it would make validating the ChangeLog
12 very straight forward through a simple XML Schema.
13
14 Best regards,
15 Stu
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 Christian Birchinger <joker@g.o>