Rene Rivera wrote:
> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>>> Indeed. Ok, I think I know how to fix this in quickbook. But that would
>>>> require having knowledge of the modification dates of included files
>>>> (via filesystem last_write_time perhaps?).
>>> That won't work either. As file system timestamps also have no bearing
>>> on when the content changed. Same example as before. Metacomm does a
>>> clean build, which means that the archive is expanded each time and then
>>> used to build stuff. Hence the access times will not correspond to
>>> content changes.
>> Yah :(
>>
>>>> I'll see what I can do.
>>>> If anyone has a better/simpler idea, I'm all ears.
>>> Ah, better yes, simpler not likely ;-)
>>>
>> [snip not simple suggestion]
>>> OK, definitely not simpler :-\
>> Ok, here's a simpler suggestion: Allow
>>
>> [last-revision $Date: 2006/09/16 09:21:08 $]
>>
>> on all qbk files and make quickbook use the latest date.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Define "latest date" please. Hopefully you mean "most recent date".
>
> Sure, it would work. But my suggestion has the benefit of allowing for
> the individual files to stand alone. Not a big benefit I know :-) And of
> setting some of the other info. Like having a place to put the license
> and copyright since I noticed that people don't seem to currently put
> those in comments of such included qbk files.
Right. Looking at it again, I think we only need to allow a couple of
the items there to be *overridden* in included files. Example:
* copyright (a) or (b)
* authors (a) or (b)
* license (a) or (b)
* last-revision (a), if it's more recent than current value
where:
a) Merge with the current value.
b) Use new value only for current file/doc.
I took out all the ones you have as (c) -- Ignore the new value.
I also took out source-mode since this can already be overridden.
So, these overrides can be placed anywhere. Example:
main.qbk
[library foo
[quickbook 1.4]
[version 1.4]
[copyright 2006 Joe Bloke]
[authors [Bloke, Joe]]
[purpose Whatever...]
[license
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
(See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt])
]
[last-revision $Date: 2006/09/16 09:21:08 $]
]
include.qbk
[license
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
(See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt])
]
[last-revision $Date: 2006/09/16 09:21:08 $]
How does that sound?
Regards,
--
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
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