Re: time to retire ChangeLog?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Daniel Jour <qna...@tz...> [2017-02-23 08:44:10 +0000]:
>
> I think a changelog is a very useful thing to have, but I always felt
> that the one of CLISP is by far too detailed.

Once upon a time, CLISP had 3(!) historical files: ChangeLog (detailed),
CHANGES.LOG (summary for developers), and NEWS (summary for users).
I got rid of CHANGES.LOG in 2002.

Now we have 4(!!!) histories: ChangeLog, NEWS, history.xml, `hg log`.
The twist is that history.xml is merely the compressed docbook version
of NEWS, updated at release time (IOW, the main difference between
https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/clisp/ci/tip/tree/src/NEWS and
http://clisp.org/impnotes/clisp-history.html is the order).

ChangeLog is a hold-over from the pre-VC times.
Bruno finds it useful so we will keep it until he grows out of it :-)

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