[Rd] Issue tracking in packages [was: Re: [R] change in read.spss, package foreign?]
Friedrich.Leisch@tuwien.ac.at
Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at
Sat Sep 10 10:31:29 CEST 2005
>>>>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:33:03 -0700 (PDT),
>>>>> Thomas Lumley (TL) wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>>
>> I personally put NEWS, WISHLIST and THANKS files in the 'inst'
>> directory of all my source packages. This has the effect of copying them to the
>> top level of the built version so that they are accessible from R via:
>>
> I'm not sure that WISHLIST and THANKS need to be available to people who
> haven't installed the package. NEWS, on the other hand, really does.
> One option (if it doesn't turn out to be too much work for the CRAN
> maintainers) would be to have an optional Changelog field in the
> DESCRIPTION file giving the relative path to the file. This would mean
> that maintainers would not all have to switch to the same format.
> eg for foreign
> Changelog: ChangeLog
> and for survey
> Changelog: inst/NEWS
> This might be enough to make it easy for CRAN to display these when the
> maintainer provides them.
Standard location or a mechachanism like the one you describe are both
similar amount of work (and not much at all), the HTML pages are
generated by perl and I have the parsed DESCRIPTION file there, i.e.,
using a fixed name or the value of the Changelog field is basically
the same.
.f
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