Re: [Devel] truetype loader crashes in current CVS version

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Usually, I walk through all code, improving/fixing the ChangeLog
> > entries (in most cases they are not detailed enough or don't
> > follow the standard).  Maybe I'm paranoid, but, as Antoined said,
> > the benefits are *extremely* helpful to find troubles with older
> > code.
> 
> Erm, why maintain ChangeLog manually? There are scripts that _build_
> ChangeLog-like files directly from CVS. Eg. in the Python
> distribution there's a script called logmerge.py that does exactly
> that.

I never got used to them.  Since I'm not always in the internet I
prefer to submit multiple changes at once (and David does the same
BTW).  Bad habit, I know...

> Another thing that _really_ helps code review is adding a diff to
> the CVS log email. I use a Python script called syncmail for this,
> it works very well:
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvs-syncmail
> (The Python project itself uses it, too.)

Good idea.


    Werner


PS: I really miss a ChangeLog file for fonttools...