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    SubjectRe: Changelogs on kernel.org
    On Mon, 13 May 2002, Greg KH wrote:

    > What would be even _nicer_ is to remove the dependency on the changelog
    > script entirely (right now you have to pipe the output through this perl
    > script to get the results.)
    >
    > The script that Linus (and others) uses can be found at:
    > http://gkernel.bkbits.net:8080/BK-kernel-tools/anno/changelog@1.5?nav=index.html|src/

    I'm a BK ignorant, and for robustness and programmer efficiency ;-)
    reasons, I'd prefer not to call other software from a Perl script. Doing
    that properly and handling errors correctly costs some dozens of lines
    of code that we save when we're just building on what we have now. The
    way it is now, we can deal with old and current ChangeLogs, we have the
    verbose summary (overview, actually) and that's it. As these scripts are
    not called more than several times a month, I fail to see the point in
    eliminating the original bk stuff. Maybe someone uses Arch or Subversion
    some day? Who knows? We have a well-defined input format that is easy
    enough to parse.

    Enough of this, I'm not about to waste more of my and your time :-)

    (Now back to merging and optimizing the things that have been done to my
    script... thanks!)

    --
    Matthias Andree
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