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Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:48:30PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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>>- The changelog. This probably will be a topic of debate. Initial |
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>> implementation is not necessary for the herds system to function. The |
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>> current changelog format though has some problems as the confusion about the |
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>> format some months ago showed. With including the changelog into XML many of |
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>> those issues could be resolved. It also would offer possibilities like |
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>> querying user contributions or things like that. |
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>> If it is decided to include the changelog into the metadata.xml file, |
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>> echangelog should be changed accordingly. We further need a conversion tool |
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>> in both directions. That should not be too difficult though. |
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> I am not in favor of XML changelogs. I enjoy being able to easily read a |
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> changelog without the help of external tools; I believe it is much more |
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> convienent to have plaintext changelogs. |
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> Jon Portnoy |
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> avenj/irc.freenode.net |
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I prefer plaintext changelogs. Maybe we can have both and make repoman |
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parse plaintext files during commits and portage convert back from xml |
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on request. |
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