Re: Merging FSFChangeLog

["Marty Leisner" <leisner at rochester dot rr dot com>]

I really appreciate the ChangeLogs (IMHO -- I try to convince people
I work with this is a good way to do software...nobody likes to listen
to me since  they say "we can find this out with sccs" (NOT easily!))

In gcc 2.95, I wanted to see when some behavior was changed...it just
has the ChangeLogs from the last 2 years...(I found better changelogs
in gcc 2.8.1).

while it isn't necessary to include 10 Mbyte+ of changelog in a distribution,
I would appreciate a clear pointer to where I could find complete
changelogs.

Marty Leisner


kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes  on Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:15:3
8 EDT
     >     No no no.  We don't want to do this.  If anything those old FSFChang
     >eLogs
     >     will disappear as they become less and less relevant over time.
     > 
     > I think the *complete* change history of any project is always quite
     > relevant.  I agree that as you go back further and further they are *les
     >s*
     > important and hence there's little point in spending a lot of time on
     > making them fit in particularly well, but discarding *any* such informat
     >ion
     > is a very bad idea, in my opinion.  More than once I've wished the files
     > go
     > back even *further* than they do because we have no information for the
     > first few dozen GCC releases and that's quite unfortunate.