Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Hi Simon and Jim, > > When I look at > <https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools>, > searching for the word "changelog", I see that there are three tools from > GNU people for dealing with the ChangeLog file format that is part of GNU > conventions and traditions: > - Simon, your 'git2cl' script, http://josefsson.org/git2cl/ > - Jim, your 'build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog' script, residing in gnulib, > - my git-merge-changelog driver. > > I think it would serve the users if all three were bundled in a single > package, because they solve similar problems in different ways. A common > documentation could explain the advantages of one and of the other > approach. Last not least, people don't expect tools to be distributed > as part of a library. (Remember when it was necessary to install the X11 > sources in order to get the 'xmkmf' tool? That was equally ridiculous.) > > And, as mentioned in the other mail today, it would be essential to have a > test suite for these tools. > > Do you agree with these plans? > > Would you join me in creating a GNU project for this?
Good idea, and, yes! I would have offered git2cl as a GNU project already unless it contained code from cvs2cl. The code is easy to isolate though. git2cl and gitlog-to-changelog are written in Perl, and that would be fine with me for a new tool. Your git-merge-changelog driver is written in C, but that feels like a poor language for something that is mostly text reformatting? /Simon
