Re: Automatic changelog display?

You just need to go to the package home for getting this info, both the changelog and the bugs. The PEAR installer TODO list has grow enough for a year of working, including: PECL binaries, channels, subpackages, api generation, dtd validation, applications, among others, so please don't ask and ask for stuff but help (or well put some funds ;). Tomas V.V.Cox On Friday, September 19, 2003 14:19, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > Hi, > Alexey noted that users "*should* read changelogs before upgrading". > An interesting point. How about the idea of having a way to display > the partial changelog between the currently installed version and the > latest version via the pear-installer? In interactive tools this > could be used, right? > Something like: > pear list-upgrades =>> e.g. DB 1.5 1.6 > pear retrieve-upgrade-changelog DB =>> [partial changelog for this version-step goes here] > Another think might be displaying open bugs for a package if they > might be of interest to the version to which you would like to > upgrade. The Debian-users running testing / unstable may already be > aware of such a thing in the apt-get installer. The package is called > "apt-listbugs" there. So if you want to install a version for which > open bugs exist first the bugs are displayed and you are required to > manually confirm that you still want to install the upgrade. Maybe we > could also allow the user to install a version below the latest, so > he doesn't run into the bugs (if they are important). > For sure we have to keep in mind that such "interactive" features > don't interfer with scripts currently using the non-interactive pear- > installer for automatic purpose. > Stefan -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com