On 17 April 2009 at 10:36, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | I think it would have to do more than that to be useful. It would need | to warn about a lack of an entry for the current version. Otherwise | package.skeleton would create a blank one, and that would satisfy the | check from then on. | | To recognize an entry for the current version, it would need a standard | format. But then, unless whoever put together the format was willing to | do updates to the hundreds of existing files out there, there would be a
I'd say use it on a go-forward basis. | Could you take a look at CRAN and Bioconductor, and count how many | packages already have a news/changelog file, and how hard it would be to | convert them to a standard format? I can do the count for CRAN using the account we use for cran2deb work. I'll be travelling this weekend (yay, Boston Marathon!) so please ping me next week if I forget to aggregate this. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
