On 25 February 2016 at 21:02, Consus <con...@gmx.com> wrote: > Well, we do have one > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/dev-lang/perl > > I bet folks want to check out what's new in their local copy of Portage > tree.
With a custom, portage oriented, on-demand log generator you could produce a lot more detail ( and in a text format that doesn't require a web browser to view ) , and potentially use understanding of portage conventions to generate change data outside those explicitly stated. Though that would be a "later feature" you could potentially bolt on after the main logic was sorted out. The idea being you could request a changelog for a package with a list of "interest aspects" and have the log reduced to changes that affect those interests. For instance, you could do : curl http://thing.gentoo.org/changes/dev-lang/perl?arch=~x86 And with a bit of effort, you could generate a changelog that is only relevant for somebody who is on ~x86, eliding changes that x86 didn't get yet. For instance, an ~x86 filter would elide stabilizations for ~x86, because you don't care about stabilizations if you're assuming ~arch. ( And it would elide changes that were only visible for other arches ) And this filter wouldn't necessarily be implemented in "grep for keywords in the commit message", but *analyse the change in the directory* based, which would give the ability to do things that would otherwise only be possible with a git clone. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
