Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:21:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: New features of FSF packages
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> I aggree, but also the NEWS file is not every time up to date.
> I think the only file which shows all the changes are the
> Changelog files but they are in most cases very large.

If NEWS isn't up to date, then we are out of luck, just like the rest of 
the world who use that particular package; but I think we should at least 
include what others get to see.

ChangeLog is IMHO a bad idea: apart of being very large, it also 
frequently doesn't describe at all the purpose of the change, only the 
change itself.  Here is a good example (from Emacs):

Wed Aug  7 15:01:42 1996  Richard Stallman  <rms AT psilocin DOT gnu DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu>

        * xmenu.c (xmenu_show): Set dummy.state.
        Set dummy.button appropriately.
        (popup_get_selection) [USE_MOTIF]: Set event.xbutton.button.

        * s/osf1.h (LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM): New definition.

Tue Aug  6 00:31:20 1996  Paul Eggert  <eggert AT twinsun DOT com>

        * editfns.c (set_time_zone_rule): Don't put a string literal
        "TZ=..." in environ.

Mon Aug  5 00:31:20 1996  Richard Stallman  <rms AT psilocin DOT gnu DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu>

        * minibuf.c (Fread_from_minibuffer): Make position 0 in the initial
        input mean the beginning.