[Haskell-cafe] ANN: precis-0.3.1 - Cabal package diff tool

[Bas van Dijk]

Hi Stephen,

precis reports parse errors when applied to packages containing Unicode syntax.

Regards,

Bas

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Tetley
<stephen.tetley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 12:14, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Stephen Tetley wrote:
>>
>>> I'm open to suggests for prettifying the output, or adding further
>>> comparisons. While coding precis, I decided that trying to police
>>> version numbers would be impractical so I decided to focus on
>>> changes/diffs instead.
>>
>> Sure, but it helps to get an approximation of the necessary version bumps,
>> right?
>
> Hi Henning
>
> I've uploaded a new release to Hackage.
>
> The new version will generate a HTML report when supplied with an
> --out= command line flag and print a manageable summary to the
> console. Here's the console summary between 0.3.1 and 0.4.0
> (unfortunately I can't host the HTML output publicly).
>
> $ precis --out=precis.html precis-0.4.0/precis.cabal precis-0.3.1/precis.cabal
> Comparing precis 0.4.0 to precis 0.3.1...
> 2 exposed modules removed
> 21 export list items removed
> 1 datatype removed
> 13 type signatures removed
>
>
> Generating a HTML report seems obvious in retrospect, as the previous
> version was producing far too much information to be useful. The
> reporting in this version could do with some more work improve its
> clarity, but I hope 0.4.0 is now a useful tool, rather than a curio
> (which 0.3.1 was).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Stephen
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