Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Various Stuff

[Olivier D. <dr...@sh...>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:29:44PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> * Constants

I guess a majority of people seems to think that constants aren't
such a good idea after all. May the Lord save us all (joking).
Fine with me.

> * New documents

I've got a few changes to make: (inside [])

RULES.coding
* Only [standard] modules included ...

HOWTO.developer
... accessing the code in our CVS repository.

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-Dave Cross, Project Manager

> * Program header comments

Seems like people don't like the "flower box" idea.

Could we at least put a visual separation line between sections for
people that skim through? Either a dash line on top of the section
header or simply underline the section header titles with a dash line.

> * CHANGELOG file

hmm... I don't know a direct way of doing this. Is CVS doing this
automatically? If so, why doesn't it do it for other files like
README and MANIFEST?

If CVS isn't doing this automatically, turn logging in *.pl off and
direct it to CHANGELOG. Or (don't know if we're allowed this on
SourceForge) run a cron job that does `cvs log > CHANGELOG` every half
hour or so foreach $project. I don't know the feasability of this
since I've started using CVS about 2 weeks ago and SourceForge
yesterday ;o) but here's an idea...

-Oli

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