gen-changelog.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $NAME = 'Nikolas Coukouma';
my $EMAIL = '[email protected]';

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time());

open DS, '-|', 'diffstat -l' or die 'failed to run diffstat';
open OCL, '<', 'ChangeLog' or die 'failed to open old ChangeLog';
-f 'ChangeLog~' and die 'new ChangeLog~ already exists';
open NCL, '>', 'ChangeLog~' or die 'failed to open new ChangeLog~';

my @files = ();
my $fn;
while ($fn = <DS>) {
    chomp $fn;
    push @files, $fn;
}

printf NCL "%04d-%02d-%02d  %s <%s>\n", $year+1900, $mon+1, $mday, $NAME, $EMAIL;

my $c_line = "\t* ";
my $some_files = 0;
while (@files) {
    $fn = shift @files;
    # start a new line before appending?
    if ($some_files and
        # +7 for tab, possible +2 for ", "
        (length($c_line)+7+length($fn)+($some_files? 2 : 0)) > 79) {
        print NCL $c_line . ",\n";
        $c_line = "\t  ";
        $some_files = 0;
    } else {
        unless ($some_files) {
            print "will append, so we have at least one file\n";
        } else {
            printf "will append, line not over 80 chars (%d)\n", (length($c_line)+7+length($fn)+($some_files? 2 : 0));
        }
    }
    $c_line .= ($some_files? ", " : "") . $fn;
    $some_files = 1;
}
print NCL "$c_line:\n\n";

close DS;

while (my $l = <OCL>) {
    print NCL $l;
}

close OCL;
close NCL;