[Nix-dev] Breaking changes log

[Mikey Ariel]

Maybe we can think of a way to single-source (as in port the source changes into two outputs, the .md file and the release notes)?

I'll be happy to help if I can :-)



> On 19 Dec 2014, at 15:15, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 19/12/14 15:10, Wout Mertens wrote:
>> 
>>    We already have a place to document breaking changes, namely the NixOS release
>>    notes in nixos/doc/manual/release-__notes. I'm not in favour of having multiple,
>>    out-of-sync locations to keep this info.
>> 
>> 
>> Right, but those are not very human-readable nor is there any attempt to make
>> them machine-parseable (for displaying diffs from nixos-rebuild and tests).
> 
> It's probably a lot easier and well-defined to generate something from XML than
> from some poorly specified, ad-hoc Markdown-like language.
> 
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> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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