Hi http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/CHANGES.txt
That will now be updated for future HLint releases. Thanks, Neil On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joachim Breitner<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Neil Mitchell: >> > So please, package authors, put Changes files in your packages and keep >> > the current for now. >> >> The problem is that this is the kind of dull administration stuff that >> isn't coding in Haskell, so tends to get neglected. If I know there is >> a user demand for a changelog I'm happy to provide one, but I don't >> want to waste time on something that isn't useful. For people who have >> a near zero-upgrade cost (anyone who is using Cabal) I'd suggest they >> upgrade to all of my packages immediately. For this change, I'd say it >> probably isn't worth rolling a new debian binary unless it's >> particularly easy. >> >> I will start a changelog in hlint - and for some of my projects >> (tagsoup) I do include a changelog in the user manual. > > thanks, a changelog in the manual is at least a start. But the point I’d > like to make is that even if everyone provides a changelog somewhere, if > you need to keep track of four dozen packages[1], finding out where that > is on a per-package base is quite some hassle. And even ordinary users > are curious about the improvements that were made between two releases! > > If the changelog had a properly specified format and location, cabal > upgrade could, if the user wants it, tell him all the downloaded > changes. This really helps him to keep up-to-date. It is also a good > channel for the authors to talk to his users („see this nice module I > added to the package“, „some parts of the API are deprecated now, please > move to this part“). Last but not least having documented changes is QA > measure that the Haskell platform in the wider sense deserves. > > Greetings, > Joachim > > -- > Joachim "nomeata" Breitner > mail: [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C > JID: [email protected] | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ > Debian Developer: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
