Tobias Verbeke wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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.
I agree. For the ChangeLog, the GNU ChangeLog format could be used.
The advantage is that there are already converters available for some
commonly used source control management systems, such that users
can stick with their favorite systems and comply:
For git:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog;hb=HEAD
For Subversion:
http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/
For CVS:
http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
Always willing to participate (also in converting existing files).
Best,
Tobias
But that gives the information at the file level. Since there is no
constraint in R package to place the function in a given file (even
several R functions or objects can be defined in the same file), it
gives no useful information to track changes at the level of the functions!
Best,
Philippe
| 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
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