guile/guile-core HACKING

[Gary Houston]

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    guile
Changes by:     Gary Houston <address@hidden>   01/11/21 18:38:43

Modified files:
        guile-core     : HACKING 

Log message:
        Removed reference to no longer practiced * in ChangeLog convention.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/guile/guile-core/HACKING.diff?cvsroot=OldCVS&tr1=1.60&tr2=1.61&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: guile/guile-core/HACKING
diff -u guile/guile-core/HACKING:1.60 guile/guile-core/HACKING:1.61
--- guile/guile-core/HACKING:1.60       Mon Nov 12 02:19:16 2001
+++ guile/guile-core/HACKING    Wed Nov 21 18:38:43 2001
@@ -416,18 +416,6 @@
    to do at each release.  Add a reminder about the removal of the
    deprecated defintion at the appropriate release.
 
-- When you make a user-visible change (i.e. one that should be
-documented, and appear in NEWS, put an asterisk in column zero of the
-start of the ChangeLog entry, like so:
-
-Sat Aug  3 01:27:14 1996  Gary Houston  <address@hidden>
-
-*      * fports.c (scm_open_file): don't return #f, throw error.
-
-When you've written a NEWS entry and updated the documentation, go
-ahead and remove the asterisk.  The asterisks are used to find and
-document changes that haven't been dealt with before a release.
-
 - Please write log entries for functions written in C under the
 functions' C names, and write log entries for functions written in
 Scheme under the functions' Scheme names.  Please don't do this: