From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 10:22:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20242 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA20194 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id SAA19325; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:17:35 +0100 (BST) To: Marty Leisner cc: Ollivier Robert , fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: list of differences between 2.1 and 2.2? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 09:26:21 PDT." <9606221626.AA15407@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 18:17:34 +0100 Message-ID: <19323.835463854@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marty Leisner wrote in message ID <9606221626.AA15407@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>: > What I'm looking for (and I think its reasonable and others would > like to see it to) is some sort of NEWS file (not a changelog) > of the differences between versions. For a system the size of FreeBSD, this becomes a nightmare to do. If we limit stuff to major changes, you might as just well read the RELNOTES as Jordan normally manages to catch the major changes. > What Chet Ramey is doing with bash is a good example... With a source tree a fraction the size of ours (I think /usr/src is in the region of 120Mb's). I am not familiar with the bash development system, but we also have a large number of people who have direct access to the CVS repisoritory. I suspect bash has the opposite (a lot of patches sent in, but one person with direct access to the sources). > To read the CVS tree is not a viable solution. It is the ONLY solution if you are looking for fine granularity. A `NEWS' or `CHANGELOG' file would grow VERY big VERY quickly with the development we do... I'm ot saying I'm against the CHANGELOG/NEWS idea, or even saying it's unworkable, but it would require a lot more disclipline from our committers than we currently see, and I know that this would prove troublesome... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info