----- Original Message ----- From: "Wu Yongwei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:15 AM Subject: ChangeLog indentation
> Sorry for disturbing you guys. But for the sake of saving all newbies from > my troubles, should we state clearly the requirements of ChangeLog? To say > the truth, I am still a little puzzled. The GNU ChangeLog Standards page > quoted on http://cygwin.com/contrib.html does not use any indentation at > all. And when I browse the ChangeLog on the Cygwin site, I found entries > with both indentation and not -- the problem with Web page, say, > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog?cvsroot=src, > but not the ChangeLog itself. But it is still confusing. I have said clearly that the Web pages do not always have indentation. The ChangeLog FILE is OK. You are completely right about that, but what I said was that it is CONFUSING. And the quoted "GNU ChangeLog Standards" do not use indentation, either. Am I not clear enough? And do you assume everybody has the complete Cygwin source files at hand? Sorry but I don't. I even can't since I am behind a firewall and can only access the most current files by Web. And I think it is better to have a more complete patch-writing guidelines than to correct me again and again. Telling people to "model" just ain't enough. Better documentation and/or training will do. I have seen enough programmers fail to model good examples. > > And it seems my current mailer does not support inserting TABs. :-( > Maybe I need to use others when submitting a patch. I will use Netscape instead of Outlook Express when submitting a patch. Again, except for your previous message I see nowhere mentioning the TABs. Best regards, Wu Yongwei --- Original Message from Christopher Faylor --- No, you do not find any unindented entries in the ChangeLog. [...]
