On 20.11.2011, at 21:11, Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> a recent change in octave core (in pkg.m and news.m) will allows users
> to read the NEWS file of packages from the octave prompt too. For
> example, news("signal") would show the NEWS from the signal package
> instead of the core NEWS.
>
> For the new functionality to happen, the NEWS file needs to be in the
> root of the package. However, some of the packages in octave-forge
> have this file in doc/. As such, I'm moving them.
>
> Other less common files that pkg recognizes during package
> installation are ONEWS (for when the NEWS file becomes too long) and
> ChangeLog (a much more detailed description of changes on each
> release. Something like the output of svn log).
>
> Carnë
Hi Carnë
The control package is one of these. Go ahead, but please make sure that the
Makefile is adapted accordingly such that the NEWS file doesn't get lost by
installation.
Lukas
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