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| author | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2009-12-21 00:06:11 -0500 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2009-12-21 00:06:11 -0500 |
| commit | 88e143059299f30e50fef40e9551880f16b9ed9f (patch) | |
| tree | 73ed3646527fa4b25b7a5ef51ad6f6fa2a6e6833 /Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod | |
| parent | 9c3f2640bc47839fced0ccc78bae4b814ae82e97 (diff) | |
| download | perl-88e143059299f30e50fef40e9551880f16b9ed9f.tar.gz | |
have corelist-perldelta.pl generate add'l sections
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod b/Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod index 784d8e0af2..5a55095f7d 100644 --- a/Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod +++ b/Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod @@ -132,13 +132,23 @@ within F<ext/> and F<lib/> to a number of people. B<FIXME> - this could be automated better If Module::CoreList has been updated, then F<Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl> -will automatically print out this section following a template like this: +will automatically print out several sections if relevent that can be +pasted into F<perldelta>: + + * New Modules and Pragmata + * Pragmata Changes + * Updated Modules + * Removed Modules and Pragmata + +Each section will have stub entries following a template like this: =item C<less> Upgraded from version 0.01 to 0.02 -That's a start and the output can be copied/inserted into the perldelta. +It does not include modules listed in F<Porting/Maintainers.pl> under +C<_PERLLIB>, but it's a start. Where relevent, a summary of changes can be +added by hand. A more adventurous enhancement would be to automate grabbing the changelogs for dual lived modules. For each of them, grab the relevant |