Re: Emacs local variables sections in files; time-stamping

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/22/2011 04:25 PM, Karl Berry wrote:

     The minor advantage of having time stamps in the text

Minor?  How else can we have an accurate version number?

sha256sum comes to mind. :-)

It's not a big deal; it's just that this feature of
timestamp or checksum text in source files is more trouble
than it's really worth.  In practice, if I'm worried that
someone has (say) a bad copy of src/sort.c, I can ask them
to send me their copy.  config.guess could be the same.
In the old days it wasn't always practical to ask for copies,
but nowadays it is.