Message-ID: <971536df05091007231dfb275a@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2005-09-10T14:23:13Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in, read.spss, package foreign?]
In-Reply-To: <4322E686.8020603@vanderbilt.edu>
On 9/10/05, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> I would vote for allowing a URL or external file name in in DESCRIPTION,
> whose contents could be automatically displayed for the user when
> needed. Our changelogs are automatically generated by CVS and are on
> the web.
Normally I would have expected a NEWS file to contain information
similar to the R NEWS file
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS
which is a less granular summary of the cvs or svn logs.
http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2005
For those of my packages that use svn I also have a NEWS
file. The NEWS and log files are not the same.
If the DESCRIPTION file were to pull in log files off the net or
otherwise then I think it should be done at build time and incorporated
into the distribution.
Perhaps we need the capability to reference both the NEWS file
and the cvs/svn logs.