On Mon, 29 May 2006, Akim Demaille wrote: > > Le 29 mai 06 ? 08:29, Paul Eggert a ?crit : > > > All other things being equal, it's better for --version output to be > > consistent with the rest of the program.
I agree, but I think the technical difficulties Akim described outway this concern. > > Otherwise we'd have to > > document the inconsistency, and explain why it's inconsistent, and I > > suspect that whatever explanation we come up with (which I don't fully > > understand myself yet) would cause more trouble than it'd cure. I don't see it so much as an inconsistency. I just figure --version gives more information than VERSION itself does. > I would have selected Joel's solution, but with a new change-id.c file > to save cycles. What would be in that file? Joel
