Re: please put version timestamp inside .el files

[Peter S Galbraith]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Hold on a second... what are the bad points of putting that
> ;$version 3.33 $$ Thu May 10 07:52:27 CST 2001 $$ line in an .el file
> other than it is not pretty...  One extra line doesn't burden disk
> drives that much.

Perhaps not fully relevant here (I don't know their reason), but
perhaps because that version number only reflects local CVS/RCS.

Here's an example:

> diff ~/emacs/lisp/runtime/font-latex.el ~/emacs/cvs-auctex/auctex/
14c14
< ;; RCS $Id: font-latex.el,v 1.63 2000/03/30 15:57:31 rhogee Exp
  $
---
> ;; RCS $Id: font-latex.el,v 5.9 2000/05/03 15:22:01 psg Exp $

So the RCS version number where the development file resides on
my disk has version 1.63.  When I check it into auc-tex's CVS, it
becomes v5.9.

Peter