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Re: Emacs local variables sections in files; time-stamping
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Emacs local variables sections in files; time-stamping |
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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:58:16 -0800 |
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On 02/22/2011 04:25 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
The minor advantage of having time stamps in the text
Minor? How else can we have an accurate version number?
sha256sum comes to mind. :-)
It's not a big deal; it's just that this feature of
timestamp or checksum text in source files is more trouble
than it's really worth. In practice, if I'm worried that
someone has (say) a bad copy of src/sort.c, I can ask them
to send me their copy. config.guess could be the same.
In the old days it wasn't always practical to ask for copies,
but nowadays it is.