From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merged Org 7.7 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:07:33 -0700 Message-ID: <4E496065.5070808@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87k4b2wgff.fsf@gnu.org> <0gmxfmtf4o.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fwl2ww94.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313431681 30036 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2011 18:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 20:07:57 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt1Zp-0005pP-UR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:07:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt1Zp-0001yX-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt1Zn-0001yS-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:07:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt1Zl-0002ED-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:58645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt1Zl-0002Dq-0z; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960E639E8100; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:07:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sGp+MqnMEnXo; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.3] (97-120-140-129.ptld.qwest.net [97.120.140.129]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DA4E139E80D2; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:07:45 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <87fwl2ww94.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:143258 Archived-At: On 08/15/2011 08:05 AM, Bastien wrote: > leaving the "Version" information in each header lets users make > sure the various org-*.el files are in sync > Or am I missing something? Yes, the "Version:" header is more trouble than it's worth. A user will rarely if ever check all their org files to see whether they're in sync, and there are other ways to do this check if needed, so the benefit of the header is quite small. On the other hand, the header costs developers valuable time, as they have to navigate through spurious differences due entirely to these relatively-useless "Version:" headers when they review changes. Glenn's suggestion is a good one. Emacs files brought in from other sources do just fine without version headers, and Org should do the same.