ChangeLog

[Fabien Tassin]

According to Russ Allbery:
> 
> I generated the INN 2.3 ChangeLog, and it was about 200KB total.  Do
> people feel this is worth including in the distribution in addition to the
> more general notes in the NEWS file?  It seemed like a bit of overkill to
> me, but I can generate it and include it if people feel it should be
> there.

If you look at how Perl people (p5p) deals with this, you'll find that they
give all ChangeLog files (hashed by release) :

-r--r--r--    1 root      root       1430857 Mar 23 06:39 Changes
-r--r--r--    1 root      root          7711 Jul 20  1999 Changes5.000
-r--r--r--    1 root      root         48081 Jul 20  1999 Changes5.001
-r--r--r--    1 root      root        121367 Jul 20  1999 Changes5.002
-r--r--r--    1 root      root          4193 Jul 20  1999 Changes5.003
-r--r--r--    1 root      root        512719 Jul 20  1999 Changes5.004
-r--r--r--    1 root      root       1037162 Jul 20  1999 Changes5.005

(the unlabeled file is always the lastest - 5.6.0 here)
It's useful if you follow the developpement process closely.
The "delta" docs are more useful if you only want to know the big lines.

-r--r--r--    1 root      root         56125 Mar  3 19:55 pod/perl5004delta.pod
-r--r--r--    1 root      root         34281 Mar  3 19:55 pod/perl5005delta.pod
-r--r--r--    1 root      root        104817 Mar 23 06:27 pod/perldelta.pod

IMHO, our NEWS file is too "light". A lot of people are still using INN 1.*
but it's not covered (nor the upgrade path, nor the changes list).
I like the "delta" method because you only have to maintain one file per
release and forget it once the release occured.

-- 
Fabien Tassin -+- fta at oleane.net