On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Hey,

I first wrote Makefile.am magic for Pango to generate ChangeLog from git on 
demand.  Those macros have been modified and gathered in 
http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog to only generate ChangeLog for "make 
dist".  I wonder what people actually want to have, so I can work on canonical 
macros to copy across projects (and eventually find a better way to 
distribute).  Pros and cons:

Pros for generating ChangeLog proper:

  - No need to have a placeholder ChangeLog, nor need to pass "foreign" to 
automake

  - You can "make ChangeLog" and inspect it before it goes into the tarball

Cons:

  - Have to modify autogen.sh to create an empty ChangeLog, or pass the 
"foreign" flag to automake


Humm, no idea about pros and cons of the other approach.  So, what do people 
think?

Cheers,
behdad

PS.  If you need any autotools hacking, related to git or not, feel free to 
ping me.  I'd always be happy to help.