[PATCH] Add UPDATING document (was: Upgrading and releases)
Hi,
* Thomas Roessler [06-05-17 23:12:32 +0200] wrote:
On 2006-05-17 19:13:10 +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote:
The first one is the introduction of a document called
"UPGRADING" or similar which lists incompatible changes
made.
+1
There may be some discussion about what is in important and what is not
I guess.
Anyway, attached is a patch that adds an "UPDATING" document mentioned
in README. Right now it only contains things I consider worth mentioning
taken from the 1.4-stable branch logs.
bye, Rocco
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:wq!
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index c13ce8c..82249ac 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ EXTRA_mutt_SOURCES = account.c md5c.c mu
pgppacket.c mutt_idna.h hcache.h hcache.c mutt_ssl_gnutls.c \
crypt-gpgme.c crypt-mod-pgp-gpgme.c crypt-mod-smime-gpgme.c
-EXTRA_DIST = COPYRIGHT GPL OPS OPS.PGP OPS.CRYPT OPS.SMIME TODO \
+EXTRA_DIST = COPYRIGHT GPL OPS OPS.PGP OPS.CRYPT OPS.SMIME TODO UPDATING \
configure account.h \
attach.h buffy.h charset.h copy.h crypthash.h dotlock.h functions.h
gen_defs \
globals.h hash.h history.h init.h keymap.h mutt_crypt.h \
diff --git a/README b/README
index 936c48e..35cd1de 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
README for mutt-1.5
===================
+When updating mutt from an earlier release or from CVS, please make sure
+to read the compatbility notes in ``UPDATING''.
+
If you got the mutt source code from the public CVS repository (CVS
root: :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxx:/home/roessler/cvs, password
anonymous), please read doc/devel-notes.txt to make sure that you
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9427465
--- /dev/null
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+This file lists incompatible changes and additional/new features made to
+mutt. Please read this file carefully when upgrading your installation.
+
+2004-02-12:
+
+ Mutt 1.4.2.1 has been released.
+
+2004-02-11:
+
+ Mutt 1.4.2 has been released.
+
+2003-03-19:
+
+ Mutt 1.4.1 has been released.
+
+2002-07-07:
+
+ The 'unauto_view' command has been added.
+
+2002-06-18:
+
+ A Bulgarian translation has been added.
+
+2002-05-31:
+
+ Mutt can now also be built without iconv support.
+
+2002-05-29:
+
+ Mutt 1.4.0 has been released.