From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: deleting rcs keywords from emacs sources Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:45:33 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4242667.1080067569994.JavaMail.root@tintin.london.ongenie.net> <20040323214737.GA21737@fencepost> <1080200708.749.486.camel@localhost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080320730 4052 80.91.224.253 (26 Mar 2004 17:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 26 18:05:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6ulg-0003Gl-00 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:05:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6ulg-000306-00 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:05:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6ug0-0005vw-4l for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:59:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6uYe-0004ix-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:51:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6uXS-0004Lv-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6uXR-0004LK-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:50:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B6uSb-0004lu-Eb; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:45:33 -0500 Original-To: Andre Spiegel In-reply-to: <1080200708.749.486.camel@localhost> (message from Andre Spiegel on Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:45:08 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20964 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20964 The user doesn't have CVS access, my fix is not readily backported into the version of the file he has, so I send him the entire current source file. Later, that person has another problem, and reports it along with the version number of the file I sent him. Without version numbers in the files, this is very difficult, if not impossible to keep track of. I can follow how this is useful for you. I would guess that only a few Lisp file maintainers do this, though. If you put a date manually into the files when you send an entire file to someone, it would achieve the same purpose, right? You'd be doing it manually instead of automatically. How much extra work would that impose on you? (It depends on how often you actually do this.)