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announce-gen -- not flexible enough
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
announce-gen -- not flexible enough |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:36:21 -0500 |
announce-gen is lovley, but it is very inflexible if you use a
different format for NEWS.
In inetutils, we use something like:
| December 27, 2008
| Version 1.6:
|
| * Fixed FOO in BAR.
|
| * Added BAZ.
|
| October 21, 2006
| Version 1.5:
|
| ...
I am not sure what a way one should fix announce-gen to be more
flexible, maybe just being able to specify a `start' regexp, and a
`end' regexp would be enough. So in the above example, we could use
something like:
--start-regexp="^Version " --end-regexp="^$"
Or maybe just a switch to skip looking at NEWS, and add a `FIXME: Add
noteworthy changes here' where the news entries go.
Alas, I don't know enough perl to hack announce-gen.
- announce-gen -- not flexible enough,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Jim Meyering, 2009/12/05
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/12/05
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Jim Meyering, 2009/12/05
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/12/05
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Jim Meyering, 2009/12/05
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/12/05
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/12/13
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Jim Meyering, 2009/12/13
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/12/13
- Re: announce-gen -- not flexible enough, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/12/05