On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:48:12 +0000 (GMT), you wrote: >Encourage or force? > >Quite a few packages do already have a ChangeLog, and I took the thrust of >this thread to be to require one or at least nag for one.
I think it should be required, and as with Rd files, we'll check the form but not the content. For example, require an entry in a specified format for the current version number, and have optional entries for earlier version numbers. I have no idea what the Debian ChangeLog format looks like (other than the R example!), but I'd say if we do this, it would make sense to use the same format as NEWS (and the Windows CHANGES file), or put those two files into the new format. They are currently easy to edit manually and easy to print and read. I don't think the same could be said of an XML format, but I could be wrong. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
