Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> - A "News:" section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the
>>>>   user-visible changes of each version.
>>>> It's not clear to me that anything is actually done with that
>>>> information.
>
> It's used, but indeed it should be used more.
>
> Some additional places where it could be used come to mind:
> - in the automatic email notification sent to gnu.emacs.sources
> - when viewing a package in package-list-packages
> - as suggested by Christopher, when upgrading an installed package.

Is there a standard format for differentiating versions? The first and
third use that you mention above would benefit from being able to parse
out a specific range of versions. A quick scan of NEWS files in Elpa
shows a fairly random assortment of approaches to formatting versions
and dates...