Discussion:
[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH] NEWS: misc spelling, grammar and wording fixes
Diego Biurrun
2013-03-12 17:06:59 UTC
Permalink
---
NEWS | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe6a424..e61c5ea 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,68 +4,67 @@ Changes between 1.2.13 and 1.3.0:
* Dropped deprecated, undocumented API:
- the function dvdcss_title()
- the type dvdcss_handle
- * Drop support for Windows 98 support and Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are required
+ * Drop support for Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
+ Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are required.


Changes between 1.2.12 and 1.2.13:
----------------------------------

- * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support
- * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it
- * System-dependant code cleanup
- * Move to Git and rewrite of the history to get proper authorship
- * Drop LaTeX documentation
- * Fix build on various systems
- * Fix compilation on MSVC
+ * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support.
+ * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it.
+ * System-dependent code cleanup
+ * Move to Git and rewrite the history to get proper authorship.
+ * Drop LaTeX documentation.
+ * Fix build on various systems including MSVC.


Changes between 1.2.11 and 1.2.12:
----------------------------------

- * fix regression on RPC-I drives handling.
+ * Fix regression with RPC-I drive handling.


Changes between 1.2.10 and 1.2.11:
----------------------------------

- * improvements on RPC-II handling.
- * more robust key retrieval.
- * fixes for MinGW compilation.
- * fixes for OS/2 compilation.
- * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build issues.
+ * improvements with RPC-II handling
+ * more robust key retrieval
+ * fixes for MinGW compilation
+ * fixes for OS/2 compilation
+ * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build problems


Changes between 1.2.9 and 1.2.10:
---------------------------------

- * DVD drive autodetection.
- * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function.
- * various failure recovery improvements.
- * accept "X:\" as a device name, as well as "X:".
- * various bug fixes.
+ * DVD drive autodetection
+ * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function
+ * various failure recovery improvements
+ * accept "X:\", as well as "X:" as device name
+ * various bug fixes

Changes between 1.2.8 and 1.2.9:
--------------------------------

* more robust key caching
* support for cache directory tags
- * improved seeking on win32
+ * improved seeking on Win32
* support for Solaris libsmedia library

Changes between 1.2.7 and 1.2.8:
--------------------------------

- * win32 fix for encrypted DVDs.
- * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random.
+ * Win32 fix for encrypted DVDs
+ * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random

Changes between 1.2.6 and 1.2.7:
--------------------------------

- * activated key caching by default.
- * fix for collisions between cached keys.
- * packaging improvements for Debian.
- * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions.
+ * key caching activated by default
+ * fix for collisions between cached keys
+ * packaging improvements for Debian
+ * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions

Changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6:
--------------------------------
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ Changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5:
Changes between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4:
--------------------------------

- * administrator rights are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
+ * administrator privileges are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP

Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3:
--------------------------------
--
1.7.9.5
Ivan Kalvachev
2013-03-12 22:28:05 UTC
Permalink
Post by Diego Biurrun
---
NEWS | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe6a424..e61c5ea 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
- the function dvdcss_title()
- the type dvdcss_handle
- * Drop support for Windows 98 support and Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are required
+ * Drop support for Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
+ Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are required.
----------------------------------
- * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support
- * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it
- * System-dependant code cleanup
- * Move to Git and rewrite of the history to get proper authorship
- * Drop LaTeX documentation
- * Fix build on various systems
- * Fix compilation on MSVC
+ * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support.
+ * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it.
+ * System-dependent code cleanup
+ * Move to Git and rewrite the history to get proper authorship.
+ * Drop LaTeX documentation.
+ * Fix build on various systems including MSVC.
----------------------------------
- * fix regression on RPC-I drives handling.
+ * Fix regression with RPC-I drive handling.
----------------------------------
- * improvements on RPC-II handling.
- * more robust key retrieval.
- * fixes for MinGW compilation.
- * fixes for OS/2 compilation.
- * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build issues.
+ * improvements with RPC-II handling
+ * more robust key retrieval
+ * fixes for MinGW compilation
+ * fixes for OS/2 compilation
+ * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build problems
---------------------------------
- * DVD drive autodetection.
- * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function.
- * various failure recovery improvements.
- * accept "X:\" as a device name, as well as "X:".
- * various bug fixes.
+ * DVD drive autodetection
+ * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function
+ * various failure recovery improvements
+ * accept "X:\", as well as "X:" as device name
+ * various bug fixes
--------------------------------
* more robust key caching
* support for cache directory tags
- * improved seeking on win32
+ * improved seeking on Win32
* support for Solaris libsmedia library
--------------------------------
- * win32 fix for encrypted DVDs.
- * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random.
+ * Win32 fix for encrypted DVDs
+ * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random
--------------------------------
- * activated key caching by default.
- * fix for collisions between cached keys.
- * packaging improvements for Debian.
- * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions.
+ * key caching activated by default
+ * fix for collisions between cached keys
+ * packaging improvements for Debian
+ * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions
--------------------------------
--------------------------------
- * administrator rights are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
+ * administrator privileges are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
--------------------------------
--
1.7.9.5
Hum... you put period "." at the end of all items before 1.2.12 to 13
, but you removed it on all items after it. Doesn't look consistent.

And you didn't capitalize the sentences from the old entries, only 1.2.11 to 12.
Diego Biurrun
2013-03-15 14:58:59 UTC
Permalink
Post by Ivan Kalvachev
Post by Diego Biurrun
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
- * administrator rights are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
+ * administrator privileges are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
Hum... you put period "." at the end of all items before 1.2.12 to 13
, but you removed it on all items after it. Doesn't look consistent.
And you didn't capitalize the sentences from the old entries, only 1.2.11 to 12.
I only capitalized sentences, except for the one above. Fixed.

Diego
Diego Biurrun
2013-03-15 14:58:42 UTC
Permalink
libdvdcss | branch: master | Diego Biurrun <***@biurrun.de> | Tue Mar 12 18:04:02 2013 +0100| [7381c95c10c30cb1086735abd1eca758c2f11209] | committer: Diego Biurrun

NEWS: misc spelling, grammar and wording fixes
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/libdvdcss.git/?a=commit;h=7381c95c10c30cb1086735abd1eca758c2f11209
---

NEWS | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fe6a424..9290ad6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,68 +4,67 @@ Changes between 1.2.13 and 1.3.0:
* Dropped deprecated, undocumented API:
- the function dvdcss_title()
- the type dvdcss_handle
- * Drop support for Windows 98 support and Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are required
+ * Drop support for Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
+ Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 with IE 5.0 are required.


Changes between 1.2.12 and 1.2.13:
----------------------------------

- * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support
- * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it
- * System-dependant code cleanup
- * Move to Git and rewrite of the history to get proper authorship
- * Drop LaTeX documentation
- * Fix build on various systems
- * Fix compilation on MSVC
+ * Drop BSD/OS and Windows 95 support.
+ * Rewrite most of the build system and simplify it.
+ * System-dependent code cleanup
+ * Move to Git and rewrite the history to get proper authorship.
+ * Drop LaTeX documentation.
+ * Fix build on various systems including MSVC.


Changes between 1.2.11 and 1.2.12:
----------------------------------

- * fix regression on RPC-I drives handling.
+ * Fix regression with RPC-I drive handling.


Changes between 1.2.10 and 1.2.11:
----------------------------------

- * improvements on RPC-II handling.
- * more robust key retrieval.
- * fixes for MinGW compilation.
- * fixes for OS/2 compilation.
- * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build issues.
+ * improvements with RPC-II handling
+ * more robust key retrieval
+ * fixes for MinGW compilation
+ * fixes for OS/2 compilation
+ * various bug fixes for small issues, memleaks, crashes and build problems


Changes between 1.2.9 and 1.2.10:
---------------------------------

- * DVD drive autodetection.
- * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function.
- * various failure recovery improvements.
- * accept "X:\" as a device name, as well as "X:".
- * various bug fixes.
+ * DVD drive autodetection
+ * new dvdcss_is_scrambled() function
+ * various failure recovery improvements
+ * accept "X:\", as well as "X:" as device name
+ * various bug fixes

Changes between 1.2.8 and 1.2.9:
--------------------------------

* more robust key caching
* support for cache directory tags
- * improved seeking on win32
+ * improved seeking on Win32
* support for Solaris libsmedia library

Changes between 1.2.7 and 1.2.8:
--------------------------------

- * win32 fix for encrypted DVDs.
- * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random.
+ * Win32 fix for encrypted DVDs
+ * workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random

Changes between 1.2.6 and 1.2.7:
--------------------------------

- * activated key caching by default.
- * fix for collisions between cached keys.
- * packaging improvements for Debian.
- * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions.
+ * key caching activated by default
+ * fix for collisions between cached keys
+ * packaging improvements for Debian
+ * packaging improvements for RPM-based distributions

Changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6:
--------------------------------
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ Changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5:
Changes between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4:
--------------------------------

- * administrator rights are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP
+ * Administrator privileges are no longer required under Windows NT/2000/XP.

Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3:
--------------------------------

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