Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > >> As said I can remove them for the Makefiles+code we "own" now and the > >> others as late as possible since the "ident" stuff is the _major_ source > >> of bitrot. I don't want to play the "catch the ident changes"-game over > >> and over again since the time for that comes from my almost non-existing > >> chunk of free time... > >> > > > > Are you saying the ident lines in question are in the upstream source, not > > Sun added? If so, then leaving them in permanently and having the ON CRT > > waive their removal is the only sane choice. Upstream code should always > > be exempt from style and formatting rules such as ident removal and cstyle, > > since otherwise every update is an exercise in pointless time wasting. > > > > Agreed, *IF* the ident keywords are *expanded* (as they should be in > this case). If they are not expanded with SCCS, then they can > potentially do more harm then good.
See my reply - we don't have "ident" lines in the AST codebase. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
