Re: PATCHES file removed
On 10/13/07, Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to be the right place to keep changing documentation (http://wget.addictivecode.org/PatchGuidelines). It's still obviously useful to have patch-submission information included as part of the Wget distribution itself; It would be nice for the distribution to contain that URL on a prominent place, such as in the README, or even a stub PATCHES file. It's in NEWS, but putting it in README can't hurt. Hey, that's a handy link. I'll follow it for my next rev (--limit-rate nn%) I had read the README file but I'm not in the habit of looking for a NEWS file. Speaking of which, I've replaced the MAILING-LISTS file, regenerating it from the Mailing Lists section of the Texinfo manual. I suspect it had previously been generated from source, but it's not clear to me from what (perhaps the web page?), or what tool was used. It was simply hand-written. :-) Oh, yeah, I don't want to do that in three places then (MAILING-LISTS, Wgiki, and manual)! It had a right-aligned -*- text -*- thing at the top, so I was thinking that was an indication of having been generated. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHERDH7M8hyUobTrERCKqOAKCGuapIPLSYLpDktbteDDYyU2I2AgCfRWs9 iznnPJ4ejopsaSgeY/APk78= =GHTD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch.
Re: PATCHES file removed
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to be the right place to keep changing documentation (http://wget.addictivecode.org/PatchGuidelines). It's still obviously useful to have patch-submission information included as part of the Wget distribution itself; It would be nice for the distribution to contain that URL on a prominent place, such as in the README, or even a stub PATCHES file. Speaking of which, I've replaced the MAILING-LISTS file, regenerating it from the Mailing Lists section of the Texinfo manual. I suspect it had previously been generated from source, but it's not clear to me from what (perhaps the web page?), or what tool was used. It was simply hand-written. :-)
Re: PATCHES file removed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI, I've removed the PATCHES file. Not because I don't think it's useful, but because the information needed updating (now that we're using Mercurial rather than Subversion), I expect it to be updated again from time to time, and the Wgiki seems to be the right place to keep changing documentation (http://wget.addictivecode.org/PatchGuidelines). It's still obviously useful to have patch-submission information included as part of the Wget distribution itself; It would be nice for the distribution to contain that URL on a prominent place, such as in the README, or even a stub PATCHES file. It's in NEWS, but putting it in README can't hurt. Speaking of which, I've replaced the MAILING-LISTS file, regenerating it from the Mailing Lists section of the Texinfo manual. I suspect it had previously been generated from source, but it's not clear to me from what (perhaps the web page?), or what tool was used. It was simply hand-written. :-) Oh, yeah, I don't want to do that in three places then (MAILING-LISTS, Wgiki, and manual)! It had a right-aligned -*- text -*- thing at the top, so I was thinking that was an indication of having been generated. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHERDH7M8hyUobTrERCKqOAKCGuapIPLSYLpDktbteDDYyU2I2AgCfRWs9 iznnPJ4ejopsaSgeY/APk78= =GHTD -END PGP SIGNATURE-
