From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Timestamp information in .elc files Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20795.4490.760332.314500@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362825653 13137 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2013 10:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 09 11:41:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UEHDI-0002yn-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:41:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEHCv-0003LW-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:40:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55763) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEHCj-0003H0-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEHCc-00033k-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:47373 helo=a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UEHCU-00030N-Cp; Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:40:26 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id r29AeCQA005343; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:12 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r29AeBlA006313; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:11 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r29AeAL1006311; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 11:40:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157652 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 08 Mar 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> .elc files start with a comment like this: >> ;;; Compiled by user@host 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 user@host 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