Re: Policy: Versioning Macros In The Archive

[Braden McDaniel]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:15 +0100, Peter Simons wrote:

[snip]

> For convenience:
> 
> The original submitter can still use free text as long as it
> does contain an ISO-like date string. The "axlint" tool will
> pick that date out and canonize the @version tag. Thus, it
> is perfectly okay to submit a macro with a version tag like
> this one:
> 
>   @version $Id: foo.m4,v 1.2 2004/02/15 10:09:31 bar Exp $
> 
> It will come out:
> 
>   @version 2004-02-15

I can go along with including a date in @version; but I don't think it's
a good idea for the archive to be stripping a release version number
that submitters may include as well.

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