Dan Mick <dan.mick at sun.com> writes: >>> 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?
Not something I can answer. > 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? > It depends on the specifics of usage, in module strings and the like they approach useless, so probably removal. In other places, that's not necessarily true. -- Rich
