Subject: Re: [RFC] Changelog
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 07:00:52 CDT
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 rms@greymalkin.yi.org wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 08:47:39PM -0500, sam th wrote:
> > My question - should we add change logs to our distribution? our source?
>
> I think that we should add the change log, or the program to generate the change log.
>
I just read that the GPL V 2.0 requires a changelog containing everybodies
contribution so that the authorship of the code is clear.
> > One important piece of info - the current changelog is huge, about 800k
> > uncompressed, or about 200k gzipped. This could be distributed over all
> > the directories in the tree, or time-limited.
>
>
> this is scary! :)
>
> we should provide, IMHO, a limited changelog AND the cvs2cl program.
> that way, those that are fond of history, can walkthrough the output of cvs2cl, and everyone olse can take a peek at what changend in the, oh, say last 2 releases?
>
> what do you think?
>
How about if we put it in the abidistfiles directory each release. That
way developers aren't burdened with another 800k in their code trees. By
the way has anyone thought about how to distribute all the extra fonts
we'll need for non-latin Languages? How big are the font files for CKJ?
Cheers
Martin
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