On Monday 29 June 2009 02:49:53 Chris Dolan wrote: > Josh, > > I participated in a previous thread on this topic, but I couldn't find > it (maybe it was blog comments?)
Maybe you're referring to: http://use.perl.org/~hex/journal/34864 ? Regards, Shlomi Fish > From memory, I think we concluded > that, no, there was no formal spec and that it would be too painful to > build one broad enough for everyone's taste. So, we dropped the > idea. My own ad-hoc syntax looks like this example: > > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CDOLAN/Fuse-PDF-0.09/Changes > > In retrospect, I may have gotten a little carried away with too much > detail... For my own syntax, I wrote an author unit test that checks > that all versions have a summary and a release date. I never got > around to writing the test that ensured the .pm's current version > number had an entry in the changelog. > > Chris > > On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Joshua ben Jore wrote: > > Last year I started seeing change logs in perl modules that looked > > more YAMLish. Is there any spec out there on this? I'm currently just > > copying input from `git log --pretty=oneline' into my Changes file and > > as of this moment, including the git repo URL. > > > > Is there any external standard or pattern I can conform to? > > > > > > Revision history for Perl extension App::Perldoc::Search at > > http://github.com/jbenjore/App-Perldoc-Search/commits/master. > > > > 0.02 Sat Jun 27 08:33:00 2009 > > 304a4464b38b71f10f34c8866da7e3bab1369d3e Clean up dependency list > > > > 0.01 Fri Jun 26 01:10:54 2009 > > 9e60c318ebd5543bb342725f7f4834b2502e65f5 Add META.yml > > c69869d09c07115b04120ce0d294011940d76321 0.01 > > > > > > Josh -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read.
