[Dev] HISTORY.txt

[Chih-Chao Lam]

I don't think end users are going to care too much about history.txt 
directly. At the least, we'll need to synthesize the info and present 
it a more user friendly manner.

chao

On Nov 9, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Ducky Sherwood wrote:

> At Heikki's request, I've started maintaining HISTORY.txt.  Neither of 
> us are really sure who HISTORY.txt's customers are -- end users or 
> developers? -- so it's unclear how much detail to put in.
>
> For example, in this release, we didn't put in that Chandler now 
> always runs RefCounted so pinning isn't required.  That's clearly an 
> implementation detail, something that end-users wouldn't care about.  
> However, if we had a third-party parcel developer who was pinning 
> code,  s/he might want to know about that.
>
> So: what do we collectively want from HISTORY.txt?
>
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