Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:29:23PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > BK reporting is keyed off of somehing called "dspecs" (for data
> > specification).  They are a lot like a primitive printf format.
> > The default dspec for changes is
> > 
> > 	":DPN:@:I:, :Dy:-:Dm:-:Dd: :T::TZ:, :P:$if(:HT:){@:HT:}\n$each(:C:){  (:C:)\n}$each(:TAG:){  TAG: (:TAG:)\n}\n"
> 
> Nice!
> 
> The idea with the perl script was, I reckon, to merely provide a tool
> thru which people could pipe the standard linux 2.5 ChangeLog and get
> an output that suits their own eye. Something like
> 
> $ wget -q ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.16
> $ cat ChangeLog-2.5.16| CMODE=1 /usr/src/linux/scripts/cl.pl| less

That's cool by me, perl is the language of choice here.  If I could have
embedded perl into the dspecs, I would have :)  If you get to the point
where you want more information from the changelogs than is there, just
remember there is probably a way to get it easily.

Cheers,