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From: | Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: | Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention |
Date: | Sat, 26 May 2018 14:48:29 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes: >>>> - A "News:" section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the >>>> user-visible changes of each version. >>>> It's not clear to me that anything is actually done with that >>>> information. > > It's used, but indeed it should be used more. > > Some additional places where it could be used come to mind: > - in the automatic email notification sent to gnu.emacs.sources > - when viewing a package in package-list-packages > - as suggested by Christopher, when upgrading an installed package. Is there a standard format for differentiating versions? The first and third use that you mention above would benefit from being able to parse out a specific range of versions. A quick scan of NEWS files in Elpa shows a fairly random assortment of approaches to formatting versions and dates...
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