Frontend review process suggestion

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"janderson" <askme at me.com> wrote in message 
news:fn1d9h$28r7$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Whenever something changes in the source code at work we get an email 
> detailing the file changes.  This encourages a form of code review because 
> it encourages others to check my changes.  I could always go to perforce 
> to do this but that is not right in my face all the time.
>
> Since the DMD frontend is open source I was thinking that it would be cool 
> if the DMD changelog included a diff of the changed frontend files since 
> the last one.  Users could click on a link and see what changes where 
> made.  How this would look I don't know.  I don't even know how you'd set 
> this up.  I know there's some tools out there that can spit out HTML 
> diffs.
>
> Also if you like this idea, what would be a practical way for Walter to 
> set this up.
>
> -Joel

Well, phobos is already hosted on dsource, which provides built-in 
integration with the subversion repo, and will auto-generate pretty HTML 
diffs.  The FE source would just have to be added.