[iyonix-support] Re: What's new in 5.16

  • From: HzN <iyonix.2006a@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:24:30 GMT

> On 31 Jan, HzN <iyonix.2006a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think what could be best and probably pretty easy to do is to add a text
> > file named history e.g. inside the app outlining the changes. With this
> > when someone does a change (s)he simply adds a line or so with the date
> > and the change. When a release is done this is then inserted as a change
> > too including the new version number.
>
> No. That's exactly the ad hoc mechanism that Acorn used (spasmodically) in
> the bad old days. We have long since moved on to the srccommit tool which
> demands that the commit of a new change includes a log message describing
> the change. It is that stuff which you see in the full change log HTML file
> I generated.

Hi, I agree that this is the better way to go and if the commit infos
can be automatically extracted and then been made part of the app distro
or added to the wiki in a easy to find loc'n thats much better indeed.

Herbert

German Archimedes Group http://www.gag.de
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