[Haskell-cafe] changelogs for packages on Hackage
It would be nice if Hackage displayed ``recent changes'' of a package. [severity: wishlist] You see, I am subscribed to the ``hackage - recent additions'' feed [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss] and receive entries that look like this: Cabal 1.8.0.2 Added by DuncanCoutts, Wed Dec 16 04:19:24 UTC 2009. A framework for packaging Haskell software This is sweet. But how can I tell what's new in Cabal since 1.6.0.3? (`Cabal' is just an example here.) * * * -- these are snowflakes Dear Santa, This year, I have been a very good boy (in his thirties). I have not pillaged, and I have often helped my children with their homework. And I always say `thank you', which makes me polite and so I deserve lots of presents this year! Please bring this stuff for me and the people in Haskell community. -- vvv ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] changelogs for packages on Hackage
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Valery V. Vorotyntsev valery...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if Hackage displayed ``recent changes'' of a package. Yes I wish for this too. These are the hackage tickets on this: Add Changelog summary feature to sdist http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/244 Add changelog feature to hackagedb http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299 Bas ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] changelogs for packages on Hackage
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:18 +0200, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote: It would be nice if Hackage displayed ``recent changes'' of a package. [severity: wishlist] You see, I am subscribed to the ``hackage - recent additions'' feed [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss] and receive entries that look like this: Cabal 1.8.0.2 Added by DuncanCoutts, Wed Dec 16 04:19:24 UTC 2009. A framework for packaging Haskell software This is sweet. But how can I tell what's new in Cabal since 1.6.0.3? (`Cabal' is just an example here.) Yep it's a fair point. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299 Some packages have a changelog file in them that we could display, though most don't. For those that do have a changelog, how we avoid displaying all of history is a bit tricky. For those that do not, ideally we could derive a changelog by looking at the difference in the API. The latter requires a tool we've not written yet. Duncan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] changelogs for packages on Hackage
Am Mittwoch 16 Dezember 2009 14:45:18 schrieb Duncan Coutts: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:18 +0200, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote: It would be nice if Hackage displayed ``recent changes'' of a package. [severity: wishlist] You see, I am subscribed to the ``hackage - recent additions'' feed [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss] and receive entries that look like this: Cabal 1.8.0.2 Added by DuncanCoutts, Wed Dec 16 04:19:24 UTC 2009. A framework for packaging Haskell software This is sweet. But how can I tell what's new in Cabal since 1.6.0.3? (`Cabal' is just an example here.) Yep it's a fair point. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299 Some packages have a changelog file in them that we could display, though most don't. For those that do have a changelog, how we avoid displaying all of history is a bit tricky. For those that do not, ideally we could derive a changelog by looking at the difference in the API. The latter requires a tool we've not written yet. Duncan How about two files, a changelog with the history and a What's new in this release which gets copied to the top of the changelog on the next release? It's only marginally more work for the author/maintainer of a package, I think, and would make the job for hackage much easier. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] changelogs for packages on Hackage
Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote: It would be nice if Hackage displayed ``recent changes'' of a package. [severity: wishlist] You see, I am subscribed to the ``hackage - recent additions'' feed [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss] and receive entries that look like this: Cabal 1.8.0.2 Added by DuncanCoutts, Wed Dec 16 04:19:24 UTC 2009. A framework for packaging Haskell software This is sweet. But how can I tell what's new in Cabal since 1.6.0.3? (`Cabal' is just an example here.) Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com wrote: Yep it's a fair point. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299 Some packages have a changelog file in them that we could display, though most don't. For those that do have a changelog, how we avoid displaying all of history is a bit tricky. For those that do not, ideally we could derive a changelog by looking at the difference in the API. The latter requires a tool we've not written yet. We could mimic Debian's approach. Debian policy requires changelogs of standard format. [1] These changelogs are updated with debchange(1) tool and can be parsed with parsechangelog(1p). [2,3] See example. [4] [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog [2] http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=debchange [3] http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=parsechangelog [4] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xterm/current/changelog -- vvv ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
