I’m not sure if this is really a feature that should be integrated into Cabal. I’d welcome Cabal to define a standard changelog format, but a tool
#244: Add Changelog summary feature to sdist ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by guest): Replying to [comment:12 nomeata]: that automatically generates the entries ought to be separate from Cabal IMHO – Cabal does not include Darcs or an editor either... :-) No effort, remember. Binding Darcs or editors into Cabal adds nothing - there is no obvious time for them to run nor obvious task to do. Generating a changelog for inclusion, though, is an obvious desideratum - like gzipping the tarball. (Indeed, there is even more justification to scrap the gzipping part of sdist - it's merely a space optimization which could as well be done by users and which impacts no actual functionality or usability, unlike having or not having a changelog.) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/244#comment:13 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects