Re: [patch] improved version information

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> BUt really, I can't understand all this fuss about this.  I find the
> current solution to be excellent and conform to the GNU std.

The new solution also conforms and was found by some people to be more
excellent.

> I'm just tired of debating of such micro details, hence my `yes'.
> But frankly, I find that
>
>         Bison 1.28a configure, by GNU Autoconf 2.49e

This is not what we have.

> is not as good as what it used to be before
>
>         configure (Bison 1.28a) 2.49e

The problem here is that 2.49e is *not* the version of the configure
script.  This would be equivalent to any given C program reporting the
version of the compiler it was made by.  It's simply incorrect.

> src/ace/doc % card --version                                     nostromo 
> 17:33
> card 1.3 (GNU a2ps 4.13)

This is definitely wrong.  The version number must be the last field on
the line.

>   cat - GNU textutils 1.19c
>   msgfmt - GNU gettext 0.10.24
>   GNU recode 3.4.2

Apparently Gnits is ignoring the GNU standards here.

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