Re: [Nano-devel] Remove build time from online help

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi Jordi,

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015, at 13:23, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> I agree with the patch proponents in
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774388
> 
> that this string is not really useful for anyone,

Well, it's useful to me, to see when did I last build and install
nano from svn, to know whether it's up to date.

> and I would just remove it entirely.

I can agree with that -- for the end user it is pointless information.
Only building from svn should add some date+time marker.

> So even if rather late in the 2.4 cycle, and actually adding a fuzzy string,
> but I'd love to see this in the final 2.4.0 release, and suggest releasing a
> quick pre4 with it so translators can again catch up.

Fine with me.  Although I would suggest not to hurry with a pre4,
as there will likely be a pre5 and pre6, possibly for the man-page
or other stuff.

> -    printf(_(" GNU nano version %s (compiled %s, %s)\n"), VERSION,
> -     __TIME__, __DATE__);
> +    printf(_(" GNU nano version %s\n"), VERSION);

To be pedantic: I would put a comma after nano.

Benno

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