[Zope3-dev] CHANGES.txt (was: Windows eggs)

Gary Poster gary at zope.com
Fri Jul 13 11:34:05 EDT 2007


On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Jim Fulton wrote:

>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
>> Tres Seaver wrote:
>>> Doing proper release management can't reeally be called a waste  
>>> of time
>>> (that would include documenting exactly what *has* changed).
>>
>> Tres raises a good point. We should continue to maintain a  
>> CHANGES.txt or a 'Changes' section in README.txt for all zope.*  
>> projects now. And I would recommend that others do the same with  
>> z3c.* etc. packages.
>
> Agreed.
>
> I recommend using a changes section in README.txt because it's  
> tricky getting distutils to include other root-level files and I  
> want to keep our setup scripts as simple as we can.

Hm (and sigh).  I was following what I thought was another Tres  
suggestion: put CHANGES.txt in the package, and a pointer in the top  
level to the package's version.

Gary



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