Re: NEWS entry format

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> writes:

> Hey gang,
> 
> So, no one had any ideas for a 'standard NEWS entry format'. How about:
> 
>   anystring <- one line with any string, at start of file or after newline
>   === <- line beginning with '=' sign
>   \n <- blank line
> 
> I've got some ChangeLog parsing foo, but I'd like to make sure that NEWS
> entries are pulled out as well.

If you want to handle the GTK+ NEWS, you actually need to scan
to the next:

anystring
====

Because I sometimes do:

Overview of Changes in GTK+ 2.1.3
=================================

GDK:
* Blah
* Blah

GTK+:
* Blah
* Blah

Things like that. 

Regards,
                                        Owen