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2007年11月08日

Module-Changes

There has been some discussion about a machine-readable Changes file.

I'm maintaining a few distributions myself and have phases of making some changes to several distributions. Opening the Changes file, copying a few lines, inserting the current date and time and so on gets tedious.

I wanted to have a command-line tool with which to interact with Changes files. Also the Changes file should be machine-readable. So I wrote Module-Changes. I've chosen YAML for the format, although this is by no means mandatory - it's easy to write a new parser or formatter for your format of choice. Integration of new parsers, formatters etc. is something I still have to work on, though.

Some see YAML as a "failed format", but enough people (me included) find it useful and easy to read for both humans and machines, so that's what I've chosen as the default format. Even so, we need to agree on a YAML schema - that is, the layout of the Changes file.

This is not set in stone, it's more of a proposal. I'm hoping for a discussion of what people like or don't like in the current version, and what they would like to see in future versions.

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