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Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?


From: Neil Jerram
Subject: Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:19:34 +0100
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi!
>
> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> "In addition to its manual, the package should have a file named
>> @file{NEWS} which contains a list of user-visible changes worth
>> mentioning.  ..."
>>
>> So I'd say that use of Gnulib (in general) should not be a NEWS item.
>> I think HACKING would be the right place to mention it - and it would
>> be just as accessible there (as in NEWS) to blurred users/developers.
>
> Sure, that's a possibility.
>
> (I think we don't disagree on what `NEWS' should contain, but on whether
> Gnulib qualifies as "user-visible".)

I would certainly agree that individual portability fixes should be in
NEWS.  Is that what you have in mind?

    Neil




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