>> 2) Have we agreed on a new form for the two problem children, >> #ident/#pragma >> ident and the modinfo line? And if so, can we specify that exactly to >> avoid as >> much thinking as possible when the new requirements are thrust on >> gatelings >> innocent of all the discussion and background? > > We've floated suggestions as long ago as Steve Lau's KTD, and that was > to use the output of "hg id" as a unique (indeed, much better than %I%, > because it applies to the entire workspace, not just one file) identifier. > > That said, we've still got some work to do in this regard, tying that > into the VERSION macro in nightly/make. Invoking "hg id" is expensive, > and we don't want folks to do that in their individual Makefiles.
You misunderstand: I don't mean a suggestion for "what to replace them with to have a useful function", I mean, "What to do with keywords in newly-put-back files". It's my understanding that all RTIs are obliged to be fixing this piecemeal now. If not, I didn't understand: "Please help catch these as folks are modifying these files for other tasks so this won't be such an onus at migration time." I held up an RTI yesterday until the modinfo string was cleansed. Should I not be doing that? Someone's going to be doing a sweep soon, I assume (perhaps you?) Does that person have an immediate plan for what to do with the %x% strings? > So for now, the policy really is what Val said. Don't let new, > non-ident keyword usage in, and we'll have a policy soon for the > unsightly-but-harmless vestiges in ident lines. > > --Mark
