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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: ChangeLog?
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <haeckel () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-01 18:01:08
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On Thursday 01 August 2002 19:42, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> kmail/ChangeLog reads:
>
> 	NOTE: This file is out of date. For a detailed list of changes
> 	please visit http://webcvs.kde.org
>
> 	2000-05-17
>
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/checklist.html reads:
> 	Changes to Existing Applications
> 	* update ChangeLog file
>

As far as I know the reason for such a changelog file is mainly because this 
is required for GPLed code to be able to find out later, who contributed 
exactely what in the case someone is interested.

> Question: Is there a changelog for KMail?
> 	  If not: Is the Checklist unprecise here?
> 	        Should the link point to:
> 		http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdenetwork/kmail/
>
> Note: The viewcvs does not really provide a good Changelog.
> Usually a Changelog can be used to read sequentielly and find out
> what has changed. CVS logs are more verbose and harder to read.

For the above mentioned task the CVS logs are also good enough or even better.

For a more userfriendly changelog try in KMail's help menu the item "KMail 
introduction".

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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