Re: [FORGE] How to find when a package was released

[JuanPi]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17 October 2014 15:11, JuanPi <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What is the most efficient method to list the date of the last release
>> of a package?
>
> Parsing of the NEWS page [1]. This page is updated after a package is uploaded
> (I used to forget to add an entry but now this is automated).
>
> Not all package maintainers tag their releases, so looking for them on
> hg may not
> be the best.
>
> Carnë
>
> [1] http://octave.sourceforge.net/NEWS.html

Thank you for  all your suggestions.
The best methods fr me are:

1. hg log -r 'last(sort(tag(), date))'
The drawback here was mentioned by Carnë: not every releaser tags the release.
I am guilty of not tagging, just because I did not know about tagging :D.
What would be the hg tag command?
When one should run it?
What should the tag be?
I imagine a command like this executed after the actual release of the package

hg tag -d $(date) release

Please do correct me!

2. NEWS page. Seems like the easiest solution to get a list.


Ideally I would like to able able to plot the time since the last
release for all packages (so hg might not be the most space in disk
efficient). Does sourceforge offers something like this?



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