[RFC] Dynamic ChangeLog generation script (was Re: [augeas-devel] ChangeLog)

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:08 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Nicolas Valcarcel
> > <nvalcarcel at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>        I have noticed that the ChangeLog entry on the source it's empty, it
> >> will be really cool if we get track of the changes in there so everyone
> >> knows what's new, so if you are going to change things please use it!
> >
> > hg log works pretty well for now :)
> >
> 
> A post on planet.gnome.org told me about an auto-changelog generation
> script hooked into 'make distcheck' for gnome-games. Looking at how they
> did it found these two interesting bits of code:
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/Makefile.am?r1=7698&r2=7722
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-games/trunk/svn2cl.xsl?view=markup&pathrev=7724
> 
> hg log doesn't seem to support any sort of xml output. This would
> still be easy to do in
> perl or shell and generate something equivalent. Writing a clean
> utility that uses getopt
> and does sane error checking shouldn't take more than a few hours tops
> in either language.
> 
> David, would you prefer this being done in perl or shell? If it is
> perl, a build-dep on perl
> would have to be added.

I think it can be much simpler than that: 'hg log --style changelog'
looks pretty good. And that wouldn't introduce any more requirements for
hackers to install additional stuff.

And yeah, it should be hooked into 'make dist'.

David