Re: Timestamp information in .elc files

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 08 Mar 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> .elc files start with a comment like this:
>> ;;; Compiled by address@hidden on Sun Mar  3 23:34:26 2013

> Off with their heads!

Please have only their hair cut. ;-)

The full comment is like this:

   ;;; Compiled by address@hidden on Fri Mar  8 08:59:18 2013
   ;;; from file /path/to/simple.el
   ;;; in Emacs version 24.3
   ;;; with all optimizations.

Gentoo has a script called emacs-updater [1] that uses the version
information from the third line, by matching the following regexp:
[Ee]macs version \([0-9].*\)

It would be nice if this part of the comment could be preserved.

Ulrich

[1] 
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/emacs-tools.git;a=blob;f=emacs-updater;hb=refs/heads/emacs-updater