Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
Previously Stephan Richter wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:08, Jim Fulton wrote: I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings. (Note that I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.) Thoughts? I actually use that string all the time to determine who worked on the file last and when the work was done. I find it inconvenient to make another SVN call to get this information. Their major downside is that they cause a lot of polution when diffing trees. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
On 7/4/07, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings. (Note that I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.) +1 These have never proved anything more than distractions. Avoiding them in the future is the way to go. Removing them opportunistically (as modules get touched anyway) would be welcome gardening of the codebase. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.fdrake at gmail.com Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. --Henry Miller ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
On Jul 4, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: I originally wanted $Id$ RCS keywords in module doc strings so that we could create tools that determined run-time version information. Unfortunately, subversion makes using this a bit difficult, as it doesn't update this information by default. I think that, with eggs, this isn't needed any more. To find versions being used, we just need to print the working set, which lists the distributions used, with their versions. I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings. (Note that I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.) Thoughts? +1 (not been very good at adding them lately :-) ) Gary ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
Jim Fulton wrote: I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings. (Note that I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.) +1 -- Benji York Senior Software Engineer Zope Corporation ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
Jim Fulton wrote: I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings. (Note that I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.) Thoughts? +1 (Moreover Bazaar for example doesn't support this keywords yet.) -- Dmitry Vasiliev dima at hlabs.spb.ru http://hlabs.spb.ru ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
Jim Fulton wrote: I originally wanted $Id$ RCS keywords in module doc strings so that we could create tools that determined run-time version information. Unfortunately, subversion makes using this a bit difficult, as it doesn't update this information by default. If you add the following lines to svn configuration (~/.subversion/config) , all new Python files will get that property. [miscellany] enable-auto-props = yes [auto-props] *.py = svn:keywords=Id # enable id for Python files Regards, Baiju M ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:08, Jim Fulton wrote: I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings. (Note that I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.) Thoughts? I actually use that string all the time to determine who worked on the file last and when the work was done. I find it inconvenient to make another SVN call to get this information. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Baiju M wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I originally wanted $Id$ RCS keywords in module doc strings so that we could create tools that determined run-time version information. Unfortunately, subversion makes using this a bit difficult, as it doesn't update this information by default. If you add the following lines to svn configuration (~/.subversion/ config) , all new Python files will get that property. [miscellany] enable-auto-props = yes [auto-props] *.py = svn:keywords=Id # enable id for Python files Right. Many of us have that, but it's hard to get everyone to set that up on every machine they use. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporationhttp://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
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Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more
On 7/5/07, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. Many of us have that, but it's hard to get everyone to set that up on every machine they use. More importantly, because that's a global setting for the Subversion client, instead of something retrieved from the server, setting it affects all projects you work on, even though the policies may conflict. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.fdrake at gmail.com Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. --Henry Miller ___ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
