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On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:15:45PM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 13:58, Toby Dickenson wrote: |
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> > No need for imagination here.... you can do much of that today with: |
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> > emerge --changelog -p -u world |
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> An XML-based ChangeLog adds semantic meaning, making it much more useful. |
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> It's not too difficult for (most ;-) humans to make sense of our current |
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> ChangeLogs, but tools are always going to be limited in accuracy and |
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> capability. |
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And i don't think XML was invented to be edited by a human. It's |
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a format which gets created an changed by programms. It's a pain |
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for people no matter how cool the syntax highliting might be. |
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> There's also the added side-effect that it would make validating the ChangeLog |
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> very straight forward through a simple XML Schema. |
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XML is fine as long as i don't have to edit it by hand. Almost |
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every other format is nice to handle by people with normal |
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editors. And reading is even worse. Now you a tool to read a |
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Changelog. Ok, maybe i'm the last person which prefers to read |
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such things with less or cat or whatever. |
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Metadata is acceptable it's almost only used by apps which parse |
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it. But a Changelog is something people read with a pager or |
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editor. I'm no fan of using tools for simple stuff like reading |
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logs. |
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Christian |
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