Re: Finally - sane NEWS information!

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:02:47PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Mark McLoughlin">
> 
> > Right, so I assume you must have some heuristic to figure the format of
> > the NEWS entry so you can pull only the latest one. Just so we have an
> > idea of how not to break it terribly, what is it ? :-)
> 
> It's absolutely stupid, but surprisingly robust:
> 
>   diff -u OLDS NEWS | sed '1,/@@/d;/@@/,//d;/^[^+]/d;s/^+//'
> 
> I have no idea why I didn't think of it earlier. ;-)

  Hum, I actually generate libxml2 and libxslt NEWS files (yes
with XSLT of course) so even if coercing everybody into writing
similar NEWS is not possible, do you have any sort of guidelines ?
I remember a passionate thread about this one year or such ago
but what do we really want to show ? My diff generate something like:

------------------------
--- NEWS        25 Jan 2004 21:02:52 -0000      1.24
+++ NEWS        12 Feb 2004 15:31:48 -0000      1.25
@@ -15,6 +15,31 @@
   Schemas
                                                                                
                                                                                
+2.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
+   - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
+    William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
+   - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
+    (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
+    (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
+    Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
+    XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
+    isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
+    entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
+    <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
+   - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
+    (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
+    --with-minimum configuration.
+   - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
+   - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
+    dependancies (John Fleck)
+   - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
+   - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
+    prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
+  patch
+   - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
+    input.
+
+
 2.6.5: Jan 25 2004:
    - Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
     (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
------------------------

  Is that okay ? I can work on formatting (to some extend) at the XSLT
level easilly.

Daniel

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