port whatsnew

[Luc Heinrich]

Greetings,

I don't know about you, but having to manually look for changes  
information everytime there is an update on one of my installed ports  
slightly annoys me :) I would love to have a 'whatsnew' port action  
for example.

Major version changes or even minor version changes would be nice to  
have but could probably simply be a direct link to the changelog on  
the web if it's available. On the other hand, I find Portfile changes  
(0.0.0_x changes) usually pretty important to see because they can  
introduce some pretty drastic changes in some cases, some you may or  
may not want to apply on your installed tree (the recent ruby 1.8.5_1  
change I'm talking about in another message is an example). In this  
case, it would be cool to directly display the last commit message  
and have a direct link to the corresponding changeset to have all the  
nitty-gritty details, all this instead of having to go to the  
MacPorts Trac site and manually dig into the source and history browser.

Something like:

% port whatsnew ruby
1.8.5_0 -> 1.8.5_1
- take over
- include a security fix
- add missing dependencies
- fixed fuzzy patches
See http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/20540

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Luc Heinrich - luc at honk-honk.com - http://www.honk-honk.com