On 9/10/05, Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> Thomas Lumley writes: > > > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> How about if there were just a standard location and name such as > >> inst/NEWS, > >> inst/WISHLIST, inst/THANKS (which has the advantage that they are > >> automatically > >> made available in the built package under the current way packages are > >> built) > > > The problem is that there *isn't* a standard location. As Robert > > Gentleman has pointed out, if you only maintain two or three packages > > it isn't too bad to change them to some new layout, but if you are the > > bioconductor project it gets painful quite quickly. > > > Also, there are good reasons for having NEWS in the top level > > directory. Nearly everything that isn't an R package does this, > > because it's a useful standard. > > And similar things could be said about Emacs users with ChangeLog files > in top-level package directories ... > > I like the suggestion about using a Changelog (or whatever it would be > called) field in the package DESCRIPTION meta-data. If we have that, we > could not only use this for repository-side presentation of the package, > but also install such info and have a simple show_package_change_log() > function ...
One could have that without this meta data. show_package_change_log could just check if the file is present. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
