[Tcllib-devel] ChangeLogs and other stuff in CVS

[Lars H. <Lar...@re...>]

Only recently did I get around to checking something in to the tcllib 
CVS myself. This mostly behaved as I expected it to, but there are some 
points I think I'd better ask about.

1. ChangeLogs

Since the ChangeLog files mostly seem to be a concatenation of commit 
messages (for example 
http://tcllib.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tcllib/tcllib/modules/aes/ChangeLog?revision=1.21&view=markup 
bears a striking resemblance to 
http://tcllib.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tcllib/tcllib/modules/aes/ChangeLog?view=log), 
I concluded those were probably autogenerated somehow and didn't touch 
it. However, since it's now been three days and no autoupdate, I 
suppose I'd better add an entry manually as soon as I'm confident 
noone's going to point out what other thing I should have done instead.

I also notice there is a ChangeLog file in the main tcllib directory 
which has gone through a lot more changes than any of the other files 
there, so it appears it records changes anywhere in tcllib. On the 
other hand, this main ChangeLog hasn't been changed during the last two 
months despite some bugs being fixed in that period, so when is a 
change important enough to update this main ChangeLog?


2. Project feed

Possibly related is that the "project feed" on 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/ doesn't seem to show any 
commits even though commits have occurred. Anyone know why?


3. pkgIndex.tcl

One thing I did come across when trying to find documentation about the 
above was a note that the pkgIndex.tcl file in the "math" module needed 
special treatment, but the note didn't say how. From looking at the 
file, I suppose running pkg_mkIndex would be a Bad Idea. (This is of 
interest to me, because the next contribution I was going to make is a 
new package math::numtheory providing a math::numtheory::isprime 
command.) So is this supposed to be updated manually?


Lars Hellström