Re: [non-stop] 01/10 Add "executing" property

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:47:43AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > * Makefile.in (event-top.o, frame.o, inf-loop.o, top.o):
>> > Update.
>> 
>> I think you should tell what prerequisites were added to each target.
>> A simple "update" will never reveal when a prerequisite was added, if
>> someone will ever want to know.
> 
> I don't think it's necessary to duplicate the contents of the patch in
> the changelog.  Do you really think it's useful?  We've never asked to
> do this (see the cvs log of Makefile.in for plenty of examples), and I
> would resist; changelogs already take a long time to write.

It's actually fairly weird that one has to maintain dependencies by hand,
I don't think I know any single project still alive that needs that. And
duplicating that dependency information in ChangeLog entries will make
a painful thing twice as painful. Not that the question "who added this
dependency" seems like a common question to ask.

- Volodya