Howdy, all. I just added two new files to the nmh tree. My ChangeLog entry
explains:
* Richard Coleman threw out a lot of old MH-specific files in nmh.
Much of the stuff, indeed, is not worth saving, but there are
nuggets that are very worthwhile, and should probably be added
back in. Most important, IMHO, are the MH change logs, as they
can help answer questions like "Why is this code like this?" or
"How long has this been broken?" or "What was this ever used for?"
I've added a new file to the nmh tree called
ChangeLog_MH-3_to_MH-6.6. It's cobbled together from the
mh-6.8.4/papers/mh*/MHCHANGES files. I've re-ordered the entries
to go from newest at the top to oldest at the bottom to match the
ChangeLog convention. Unfortunately there are no change logs for
versions of MH prior to 3 in the MH tar files available at
<ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/mh>. Also, it appears to me that there
are MH-6.6 changes that aren't documented in the logs.
I've also added ChangeLog_MH-6.7.0_to_MH-6.8.4.html. This is
based on mh-6.8.4/papers/changes/mh-changes.ms. The nroff format
and its "catman"-type output are a pain to deal with, but I was
loath to throw away the formatting, so I converted the file to
HTML. The only actual markup in the body are the "<B>" and "<U>"
tags, and "<" and ">" instead of '<' and '>', so it's quite
doable to view the file in plain ASCII mode as well. Note that
some of the changes this file documents as having been made in
MH-6.8.4 may not be present in nmh -- Richard started with 6.8.3
and later put in certain 6.8.4 stuff.
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