Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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.
I would not vote for pulling files off the net. It is useful to see
change log entries dated after when the package was built, so the users
can get a sense of the value of updating or can bother the maintainer to
create a new version.
Frank
>
> Perhaps we need the capability to reference both the NEWS file
> and the cvs/svn logs.
>
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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