ChangeLog formating config dir files (was Re: Patch for specifier bug fixes in calls to asm_fprintf)

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:

> Hmm, I thought our ChangeLog convention allowed omitting "config/",
> (and also "config/cpu/" when modifying config/cpu/cpu.*) I.e. there's
> only one m68k.c in the repo, no need for path verbosity.  Of course
> now I can't find where on the website this is written...

There was such a convention (unwritten [1]), but I believe it should die
and we should just use the full paths.

(We could do with other simplification of ChangeLog conventions.  Why does
objc - uniquely among front ends - not have its own ChangeLog?  Why does
gcc/po have its own ChangeLog?  Why do some directories rotate ChangeLogs
numerically, others by year (I prefer by year - though
libjava/ChangeLog-2001 contains both 2000 and 2001), others, though with
fair volume, not at all?  Why does f/ChangeLog default to the old time
format (cf <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-04/msg00266.html> and
followups)?)

[1] My recollection is that it has been mentioned on the lists at least
once (possibly in passing) since the start of EGCS, but I won't try to
locate the message in question.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk