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git-changelog package?


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: git-changelog package?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 00:36:08 +0200
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Hi Simon and Jim,

When I look at
<https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools>,
searching for the word "changelog", I see that there are three tools from
GNU people for dealing with the ChangeLog file format that is part of GNU
conventions and traditions:
  - Simon, your 'git2cl' script, http://josefsson.org/git2cl/
  - Jim, your 'build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog' script, residing in gnulib,
  - my git-merge-changelog driver.

I think it would serve the users if all three were bundled in a single
package, because they solve similar problems in different ways. A common
documentation could explain the advantages of one and of the other
approach. Last not least, people don't expect tools to be distributed
as part of a library. (Remember when it was necessary to install the X11
sources in order to get the 'xmkmf' tool? That was equally ridiculous.)

And, as mentioned in the other mail today, it would be essential to have a
test suite for these tools.

Do you agree with these plans?

Would you join me in creating a GNU project for this?

Bruno



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