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From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sim: switch to autogenerated ChangeLog files
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:00:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <313988fb-ed42-11f7-1e64-b46005580792@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210111110544.GC1151657@embecosm.com>

On 2021-01-11 6:05 a.m., Andrew Burgess wrote:
> I think sim/ should follow the same policy as gdb/ for now.  Do feel
> free to raise this as a suggestion for gdb/ in general though, it
> would be an interesting conversation to observe.

Last time I tried the gitlog-to-changelog script on GDB, it produced
horrible results.  Probably because it was not designed for C++.

Making a script to produce ChangeLogs for C code is already very
difficult, making it work with good results for C++ would be even
worst.  And most importantly, I think it would be wasted development
time.

My opinion is that we should either keep hand-written ChangeLogs, or
admit that ChangeLogs are not useful and get rid of them altogether
(and you know which side I lean towards).  But auto-generating
ChangeLogs, other than allowing to check the "we have ChangeLog" box,
doesn't produce anything useful.

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-10  3:37 [PATCH 1/3] src-release: fix indentation Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-10  3:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnulib: import gitlog-to-changelog Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 11:06   ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-10  3:42 ` [PATCH] sim: switch to autogenerated ChangeLog files Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 11:05   ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-11 17:00     ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-01-11 17:10       ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 17:31         ` Christian Biesinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 19:38       ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 19:54         ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 20:35           ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-12 10:47         ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-12 18:14           ` Joseph Myers
2021-01-12 18:27             ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-01-12 18:40               ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2021-01-12 21:27             ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-12 21:22           ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-03-09  5:51           ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-03-09  9:42             ` Andrew Burgess
2021-03-17 14:22               ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-12 23:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] src-release: fix indentation Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches

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