Root Release notes

system · September 17, 2003, 11:50am

Hello,

This is a stupid question:

How did you generate the Root Release Notes?
They are so uniform, that they seem to be generated by a program. Can you tell me how you did it? I want to use something similar for my project.

Thanks,
Andreas

brun · September 17, 2003, 3:32pm

Hi Andreas,

Indeed, the Release notes in html format
are generated automatically from the CVS log.
I generate the Root CVS log file in
$ROOTSYS/README/Changelog with
make changelog
(see Root Makefile), but this is just cvs log.
then I run the following script in the attachement.

I run the script in a Root session
root > .x dohtml.C

This produces the file V3.10.txt.html where
all occurences of classes or keywords known
to the Root session are automatically hyperized.

Rene
dohtml.C (911 Bytes)

system · September 18, 2003, 7:09am

Hi Rene,

Since - inspired by ROOT - we also use cvs as version control system, the generation of the Changelog file works as expected!

Thank you very much,
Andreas

Valeriy_Onuchin · September 18, 2003, 8:27am

Hi Andreas,
take ROOT sources and look at
build/unix/makechangelog.sh

Some times ago it was done via perl script and root macro
(Fons can correct me). See attached files.
Used to generate Carrot’s ChangeLog.

Regards. Valeriy
ChangeLog.zip (16.4 KB)