Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-05-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Joseph S. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > look at the ChangeLog for the appropriate year. This is also how some > > other GNU programs organize their ChangeLog files, including libhava > > and libstdc++-v3. > > Not consistently, however.

Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Mark Mitchell
Nathan Sidwell wrote: Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: When I proposed this a couple of months ago, Hans-Peter objected: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-01/msg00640.html I honestly didn't understand the objection. Hans-Peter, let me know if you want to try a

Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Nathan Sidwell
Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: When I proposed this a couple of months ago, Hans-Peter objected: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-01/msg00640.html I honestly didn't understand the objection. Hans-Peter, let me know if you want to try again to explain it. N

Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Going forward, in early July of each year ChangeLog would be moved > into ChangeLog-. Then in early January, ChangeLog would be moved > to the front of ChangeLog-. More natural would be to split off ChangeLog entries for the previous year earl

Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Joseph S. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > look at the ChangeLog for the appropriate year. This is also how some > > other GNU programs organize their ChangeLog files, including libhava > > and libstdc++-v3. > > Not consistently, however.

Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > look at the ChangeLog for the appropriate year. This is also how some > other GNU programs organize their ChangeLog files, including libhava > and libstdc++-v3. Not consistently, however. libjava/ChangeLog-1999 has entries from 1998, libjava/Change

Re: PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Sam Lauber
> As originally proposed here: > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-01/msg00031.html > > I propose switching the ChangeLogs to use year-based names rather than > numeric indexes. > > Specifically, I propose adding these files: > > ChangeLog-1997: from last part of ChangeLog.0 > ChangeLog-1998:

PATCH RFA: Use years for ChangeLog names

2005-03-06 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
As originally proposed here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-01/msg00031.html I propose switching the ChangeLogs to use year-based names rather than numeric indexes. Specifically, I propose adding these files: ChangeLog-1997: from last part of ChangeLog.0 ChangeLog-1998: from first part of Ch