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aspidites	2010-06-16 , 17:16
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Originally Posted by fatalsaint

My biggest complaint with py2deb was I couldn't get it to properly maintain a changelog file in the right format.

I never even managed to try the bugtracker and app manager stuff in it because I gave up after wanting to keep my previous changelog stuff while adding new entries. I had a big string with \n's and stuff and it just didn't output right.

I'll play with that this weekend and poke you when it's done if you're interested. My changelog comes out right, but I haven't yet implemented the one that shows up in app manager (Though I suspect it'd only take a few minutes to implement).

BTW, not sure what you were trying, but if you were formating your strings like this:

Code:

changelog = """some info
               some more info, etc
               yet more info"""

Then that could be your issue, as that's going to produce:

Code:

some info
                           some more info, etc
                           yet more info

What I've been doing instead is:

Code:

changelog = ("Some info\n"
             "some more info, etc\n"
             " yet more info")

Which allows me to keep my code pretty but not botch output.

If that wasn't your issue, just ignore me :-)

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Last edited by aspidites; 2010-06-16 at 17:22.

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