Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: precis-0.3.1 - Cabal package diff tool

Hi Stephen, precis reports parse errors when applied to packages containing Unicode syntax. Regards, Bas On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 5 May 2010 12:14, Henning Thielemann wrote:

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On Wed, 5 May 2010, Stephen Tetley wrote:

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I'm open to suggests for prettifying the output, or adding further comparisons. While coding precis, I decided that trying to police version numbers would be impractical so I decided to focus on changes/diffs instead.

Sure, but it helps to get an approximation of the necessary version bumps, right?

Hi Henning

I've uploaded a new release to Hackage.

The new version will generate a HTML report when supplied with an --out= command line flag and print a manageable summary to the console. Here's the console summary between 0.3.1 and 0.4.0 (unfortunately I can't host the HTML output publicly).

$ precis --out=precis.html precis-0.4.0/precis.cabal precis-0.3.1/precis.cabal Comparing precis 0.4.0 to precis 0.3.1... 2 exposed modules removed 21 export list items removed 1 datatype removed 13 type signatures removed

Generating a HTML report seems obvious in retrospect, as the previous version was producing far too much information to be useful. The reporting in this version could do with some more work improve its clarity, but I hope 0.4.0 is now a useful tool, rather than a curio (which 0.3.1 was).

Best wishes

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