[BioC] [Bioc-devel] knowing what is changed/new in release patches

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

A package may choose to provide a NEWS file which you should be able
to access using
   news(package = "IRanges")
(you can also ask for news added after a given version number, the
query above lists the entire file).  It is optional to include and it
is optional how detailed it is, but this is intended to be a readable
summary of changes.

For this reason, I very strongly suggests that all packages include
such a file.  Unfortunately, it is easy to forget to update.

Aside from this, svn log is your only friend.

Kasper

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Cook, Malcolm <MEC at stowers.org> wrote:
> Is there a generic way to learn what is changed or new in a "released" package since its release?
>
> For instance, IRanges was released as 1.16.0 but is now at 1.16.4.
>
> I'd like to know what was changed in this released version.
>
> I do already know that I can monitor changes to devel with either
>         http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/ or its RSS feed.
> And I do.
> And this is very useful.
>
> However, I don't know how to do this to the release version (i.e. to learn what changes to devel were deemed sufficiently important to merit a patch release to devel), other than check out the svn and use diff, which I don't want to have to do (at least for now).
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Malcolm Cook
> Computational Biology - Stowers Institute for Medical Research
>
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