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.)
Duncan Coutts
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.
We could mimic Debian's approach. Debian policy requires changelogs of standard format. [1] These changelogs are updated with debchange(1) tool and can be parsed with parsechangelog(1p). [2,3] See example. [4] [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog [2] http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=debchange [3] http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=parsechangelog [4] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xterm/current/changelog -- vvv