On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Toby Inkster via RT
<bug-cpan-listchanges@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
Show quoted text> Mon Dec 05 09:45:42 2011: Request 72972 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by TOBYINK
> Queue: cpan-listchanges
> Subject: Using Algorithm::Diff to calculate changes is ridiculous
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: (no value)
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: mail@tobyinkster.co.uk
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72972 >
>
>
> Try, for example...
>
> cpan-listchanges XML::Atom::OWL@0.100..0.102
>
> It lists the entire contents of the Changes file from 0.102, going all
> the way back to the first release.
Because you change the Changes file format.
Using Algorithm::Diff woul work for 99% of the distributions, where
authors incrementally adds new sections for a new release, in whatever
format.
Show quoted text> Would be much better to parse the Changes file properly (e.g. using
> CPAN::Changes).
CPAN::Changes only works with its Changes spec, which I don't think a
majority of distributions follow.
--
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
