Re: FYI: minor announce-gen changes

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 11/22/2006 4:36 AM:
>> FYI, I made part of the following change because
>> coreutils' NEWS file now calls changes "Noteworthy"
>> rather than "Major".
>>
>>      * announce-gen: Remove unused --release-archive-directory option.
>>      (print_news_deltas): Accept new adjective, "Noteworthy", in addition
>>      to the old "Major".
>>      Match version numbers in NEWS using tighter regular expressions.
>>      (main): Require the --gpg-key-id=ID option.
>
> Is announce-gen a useful enough script to move to gnulib/build-aux for
> sharing with other projects?  I might have found it useful in my recent m4
> release, had I known of its existence.

I suppose since you've asked, that means it is :-)
I'll move it.

It could use a few more options, e.g., a list of To:/Cc: addresses,
a list of programs (e.g., automake, autoconf, bison) for which to
report version numbers, in identifying the tools used to bootstrap
the package.  And maybe even an option to specify a time/date by which
to tell which gnulib sources were used.