On 8/13/07, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 22:06 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > > On 8/11/07, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think you misunderstanding me, it's the generation if the changelog > > > > that will take too long time. > > > > > > Well, yes - what else could I have understood from: > > > > > > > That not an optimal option, as it's illogical to store those files in > > > > the svn. > > > > > > How long does it take to generate? > > > > > > > it all depends on subjects connection and computer power, but for a > > normal person, perhaps 10 min. > > > > I believe the ChangeLog file is a relic from the past when the > > developers made one commit per week generally, it doesn't really fit > > when there can be hundreds of commits per day. > > I disagree. In a centralised VCS sure, you can scale to 100's of commits > a day - but in a distributed VCS - e.g. bzr, git, hg, monotone ... you > tend to get 100's of commits on branches, and a much smaller number of > branch merges occuring - branch merges being the point at which code > review is done, regression tests run etc. And its entirely appropriate > to create a human meaningful summary of the aggregate work done on that > branch. > > -Rob > > -- > GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>. > >
That might be true, but some projects still might not want to have a "ChangeLog" file, mostly on the basis that it gives the tools needed. But if we ignore the ChangeLog file for the moment, and concentrate on some other files. NEWS: this is one of the most empty files. As source code often are part of a bigger "project", usually it's more logical to have news binded to the project instead of the tar ball. AUTHORS: This might from a legal standpoint be needed, but I would like sometimes to merge it with COPYING to a COPYRIGHT file. README: A really important file, I would say, in --gnu, it should check that the file is not empty. INSTALL: Here is the problem file with --foreign. with gnu, and --add-missing, it will install a generic file, but for --foreign, the upstream must craft an own, thum many chooses to add empty "gnu required" files, just to get INSTALL to be generated. As it is now, either you are a hardcore gnu, or a total outsider. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
