Re: FYI: Update NEWS

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 04:50, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>  
>
> > The NEWS file was also very out-of-date, but I figure for historical 
> > value its better to update it rather than delete it. The new entries 
> > come from the GCC web page release notes, which are obviously far from 
> > complete. I'm checking this in. Any thoughts on whether this file is 
> > worth keeping? We should probably make it a web page in future.
> > [...]
> > +* libgcj has been much more completely merged with GNU Classpath.
> >    
>
> Note that each release of GNU Classpath comes with an extensive NEWS
> entry. Most of those are relevant for libgcj. I compile these every two
> months to keep track of progress (and hope people update it when they
> hacked up something really good). Probably 90% of that is directly
> relevant to libgcj.
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/classpath/classpath/NEWS?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
>  

Cool. We will definately try and do something better for 3.5. For now 
I've just been updating GCC's changes.html, but it will make sense to 
incorporate changes from the classpath release notes into that prior to 
the 3.5 release.

Regards

Bryce