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Re: [PATCH v2] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output
On 16/01/19 10:51 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 1/16/19 8:59 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> That is unless you're suggesting that it would be useful to have a
>> separate vcs2changelog directory inside gnulib that does all of this.
>> That doesn't seem too bad an idea if the gnulib maintainers are OK with
>> it. Saves me the trouble of setting up a new repo too...
>
> I'd rather that there was one script for this rather than two. Currently
> the Gnulib script is used by many other projects (GNU Emacs, coreutils,
> ...) and we should be looking to use a new-and-improved script in those
> other projects too. So I'd welcome the idea of putting this in Gnulib.
I agree with that idea, but the single script will most likely blow up
into a set of scripts with the driver and then parsers for backends (c,
c++, etc.) and quirks (e.g. macros that break the parser) for specific
projects. Would that be acceptable? If yes then I'll post this patch
to the gnulib list inside build-aux/vcs2changelog/* and also put the
current git-to-changelog into my scripts as a compatibility mode.
Siddhesh