[crossfire] autogeneration of news file

[Rick Tanner]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Brendan Lally wrote:

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      Currently the server has a NEWS file, which contains changes and
     
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      notices related to the server, by default it is not very useful and
     
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      must be maintained by the server admin to become so.
     
     
The news is a good feature, autoupdating it somehow would be really nice 
feature IMO, and convenient too. ;-)

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      What I want to know is, is it possible to autogenerate this from the CHANGELOG?
     
     
This *might* be a start.  I've been using cvs2cl to create a change log 
file from cvs.  I haven't been successful in using the -xml option and 
then converting to .html, but that's another story.

Hompage:
     
     http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
     
     

Example Output:
     
     http://www.metalforge.net/cvs2cl.txt