Sam Leffler
sam@errno.com
Sat Jun 8 00:29:55 UTC 2002
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 02:25:46PM -0600, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> >
> > Which would be better, changing the DATE line to something like:
> >
> > DATE: 06/07/02 12:00:38 MDT dccm 1.1.3 file 1.2
> >
> > or adding an initial line something like:
> >
> > VERSION: dccm 1.1.3 1.2
>
> I'd prefer a separate line, since the version has nothing to
> do with the date.
Besides which, the point of the version stamp is to let parsers adjust to
format changes, so anything that appears in front of it must have a syntax
that remains constant. I don't especially care, but putting two pieces of
info on a single line means the parser has to do more work; i.e.
VERSION: dccm 1.1.3 file 1.2
is more work than
VERSION-DCCM: 1.1.3
VERSION-FILE: 1.2
or something similar. I originally suggested that the version of DCCM is
sufficient to deal with parsing issues, so I'd be happy with just:
VERSION: 1.1.3
but I can deal with whatever--awk, sed, anything but perl :-)
Sam
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