I keep my projects in cvs. I'm looking for something to automatically generate CHANGES files for my dists.

I have seen cvs2cl, but it looks monstrous. The make fails, it has problems when the cvs server is accross the network, etc.

Any suggestions for where I can get some examples- maybe via the command line to start to create a ragged changes file?

It seems something should work within a few lines of code. cvs2cl seems like a project onto itself, that's nice, but...

Any scripts or code examples suggested?

update

I have to take my previous objection back. cvs2cl works very well, is pretty worked out. If you would like to automatically generate change files for a project in cvs, this is very much worth trying out.