On 9/10/05, Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would vote for allowing a URL or external file name in in DESCRIPTION, > whose contents could be automatically displayed for the user when > needed. Our changelogs are automatically generated by CVS and are on > the web.
Normally I would have expected a NEWS file to contain information similar to the R NEWS file https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS which is a less granular summary of the cvs or svn logs. http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2005 For those of my packages that use svn I also have a NEWS file. The NEWS and log files are not the same. If the DESCRIPTION file were to pull in log files off the net or otherwise then I think it should be done at build time and incorporated into the distribution. Perhaps we need the capability to reference both the NEWS file and the cvs/svn logs. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
