Re: [crossfire] autogeneration of news file

2005-08-20 Thread Brendan Lally
On 8/20/05, Mark Wedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my mind, the news file should contain broader/bigger changes. > > Grabbing all the data from the Changelog is likely to be more data/detail > than > most people care about. Are players really going to care that the global > arrays >

Re: [crossfire] autogeneration of news file

2005-08-20 Thread Mark Wedel
In my mind, the news file should contain broader/bigger changes. Grabbing all the data from the Changelog is likely to be more data/detail than most people care about. Are players really going to care that the global arrays are now consts, or that pointers have been fixed up? Probably not.

Re: [crossfire] autogeneration of news file

2005-08-20 Thread Brendan Lally
On 8/20/05, Brendan Lally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cvs2cl.pl --hide-filenames --no-indent -f lib/newstmp --no-times -l > "-d>$(ls -l lib/news | cut -d ' ' -f 7)"; grep -v ^[0123456789] > lib/newstmp | grep [:alpha:] > lib/news; rm lib/newstmp additionally, if a blank line between each entry is

Re: [crossfire] autogeneration of news file

2005-08-20 Thread Brendan Lally
On 8/18/05, Rick Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This *might* be a start. I've been using cvs2cl to create a change log > file from cvs. I haven't been successful in using the -xml option and > then converting to .html, but that's another story. hmm, with a little bit of bash I get the follo

Re: [crossfire] autogeneration of news file

2005-08-17 Thread Rick Tanner
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Brendan Lally wrote: > Currently the server has a NEWS file, which contains changes and > notices related to the server, by default it is not very useful and > must be maintained by the server admin to become so. The news is a good feature, autoupdating it somehow would be r

[crossfire] autogeneration of news file

2005-08-17 Thread Brendan Lally
I don't know if this is possible, so would appriciate if someone who understands the complexities of autotools could comment. Currently the server has a NEWS file, which contains changes and notices related to the server, by default it is not very useful and must be maintained by the server admin