Folks,
Have you looked at R's own ChangeLog recently?
You can insist on a ChangeLog, but some of us may be tempted to follow
R's own example ....
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:49:34 +0100, Martin Maechler
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>
> >"Of course" "R CMD check" would have the harder job of also have
> >to work properly on non-Debian, non-Linux, even non-Unix systems..
> >For Windows, there's already the filename capitalization mess.
>
> Just as long as the filenames are case-insensitively unique, we're
> okay. So no changelog coexisting with ChangeLog.
>
> > Dirk> Would that help? In order to parse a Changelog, we'd
> > Dirk> need a common format. We could start with the
> > Dirk> standard emacs mode (with vi or, mercy on them,
> > Dirk> notepad users can emulate free-hand). Or is all this
> > Dirk> too restrictive?
> >
> >I would be very much in favor of this. But then I'm biased:
> >Using Emacs 100% and using ChangeLog's for most of my packages
> > {for those who don't know: "C-x 4 a" = add-change-log-entry-other-window
> > this works even from an PKG/R/foo.R file, adding to toplevel
> > PKG/ChangeLog, automatically inserting the R/foo.R filename
> > (and a function name) there.
> > }
>
> As long as we give clear documentation about what the format should
> be, and it's not too obscure, I don't see a problem for Windows users
> here. Non-Windows users (and the INSTALL script) should be prepared
> to handle CR-LF line terminations, because not all editors make it
> easy to avoid those; there's also the possibility of the last line not
> being terminated. But those are easy problems with standard
> solutions.
>
> Duncan
>
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