[Bioc-devel] How to check package changes?
I use personally think Trac is a great way to monitor changes to packages in an svn repository: http://trac.edgewall.org/ In addition to having a very nice looking interface, it makes it easy to monitor change logs on a directory by directory basis. For example: http://trac.edgewall.org/log/trunk/contrib http://trac.edgewall.org/log/trunk/trac (Please pardon the ads, they would not be there if we installed it ourselves.) I use Trac all the time on another project and I'd love to see it set up for Bioconductor. I really miss the web based interface that went away with CVS. For xcms, I keep a separate change log that's more intended for user consumption: https://readonly:readonly at hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/ madman/Rpacks/xcms/CHANGELOG -Colin
On Apr 3, 2007, at 14:00 , Marcus Davy wrote:
Hi, I am putting this on the development list as I think it is most appropriate for discussion here. This is a general question: Is there any way to quickly find out how a package has evolved though version development? -Some sort of change log additional to the versioning information available. For example, as the R software evolves we can see changes in the base packages at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS The motivation for this is to quickly see what changes have occurred between stable and development package releases. Trolling through some R/bioC base and contributed packages installed on my system I cannot see anything obvious. I guess this depends on the package author, for example in the limma package an output from a written log file is available using changeLog(). Maybe subversion is the best way of getting this sort of information from packages although less people are familiar with svn. Marcus