From 06e9f8f8b839211e1445ff077bf1c8ecd74e445e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:57:21 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Make the calibre changelog available as a resource

---
 .gitignore         | 1 +
 setup/changelog.py | 7 +++++--
 setup/resources.py | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fc14293307..6b8ce08211 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ docs
 resources/localization
 resources/hyphenation
 resources/scripts.calibre_msgpack
+resources/changelog.json
 resources/ebook-convert-complete.calibre_msgpack
 resources/builtin_recipes.xml
 resources/builtin_recipes.zip
diff --git a/setup/changelog.py b/setup/changelog.py
index 2872716354..57efd7aa94 100644
--- a/setup/changelog.py
+++ b/setup/changelog.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from datetime import date
 
 
-def parse(raw):
+def parse(raw, parse_dates=True):
     entries = []
     current_entry = None
     current_section = 'new features'
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ def parse(raw):
             if current_entry is not None:
                 raise ValueError(f'Start of entry while previous entry is still active at line: {linenum}')
             version, draw = parts
-            d = date(*map(int, draw.split('-')))
+            if parse_dates:
+                d = date(*map(int, draw.split('-')))
+            else:
+                d = draw
             current_entry = {'version': version, 'date': d, 'new features': [], 'bug fixes': [], 'improved recipes': [], 'new recipes': []}
             current_section = 'new features'
             return in_entry
diff --git a/setup/resources.py b/setup/resources.py
index 2c7b41e3f6..a2442b47b6 100644
--- a/setup/resources.py
+++ b/setup/resources.py
@@ -310,6 +310,14 @@ class Resources(Command):  # {{{
             d[lc] = stats['translated'] / float(total)
         dump_json(d, self.j(self.RESOURCES, 'user-manual-translation-stats.json'))
 
+        src = self.j(self.SRC, '..', 'Changelog.txt')
+        dest = self.j(self.RESOURCES, 'changelog.json')
+        if self.newer(dest, [src]):
+            self.info('\tCreating changelog.calibre_msgpack')
+            from setup.changelog import parse
+            with open(src) as f:
+                dump_json(parse(f.read(), parse_dates=False), dest)
+
     def clean(self):
         for x in ('scripts', 'ebook-convert-complete'):
             x = self.j(self.RESOURCES, x+'.pickle')