Re: gnulib-tool --version

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> The resulting version string is "-dirty" IFF one builds
> with locally-modified-but-not-committed changes.  And doing *that*
> is questionable enough (from version-control and reproducibility
> standpoints) ...

I agree: when making a release that uses gnulib, one should archive or
commit the particular version of gnulib.

> ... that it deserves a label more pejorative than "-modified".

But when someone asks for the version of gnulib, we don't know whether
he's doing a release with it or not. Hence it does not necessarily deserve
the bad label.

Bruno