Am Mittwoch 16 Dezember 2009 14:45:18 schrieb Duncan Coutts:
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:18 +0200, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:
It would be nice if Hackage displayed ``recent changes'' of a package. [severity: wishlist]
You see, I am subscribed to the ``hackage - recent additions'' feed [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss] and receive entries that look like this:
Cabal 1.8.0.2 Added by DuncanCoutts, Wed Dec 16 04:19:24 UTC 2009. A framework for packaging Haskell software
This is sweet. But how can I tell what's new in Cabal since 1.6.0.3? (`Cabal' is just an example here.)
Yep it's a fair point.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/299
Some packages have a changelog file in them that we could display, though most don't. For those that do have a changelog, how we avoid displaying all of history is a bit tricky. For those that do not, ideally we could derive a changelog by looking at the difference in the API. The latter requires a tool we've not written yet.
Duncan
How about two files, a changelog with the history and a "What's new in this release" which gets copied to the top of the changelog on the next release? It's only marginally more work for the author/maintainer of a package, I think, and would make the job for hackage much easier.