2011/4/6 Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org>: > Le 05/04/2011 22:43, sebb a écrit : > >> Please don't use $Date$, because it makes checking releases much harder. > > Could you elaborate on this sebb ? I saw your other message regarding the > timezone but I don't really understand the issue it creates when you are > checking a release.
Regarding my experience in the Apache Tomcat project, there are several issues with $Date$. Timezone is one of them. [1] http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-dev&m=124692524324646&w=2 In Apache Tomcat the discussion ended with me replacing all $Date$ with $Id$, because I felt that there was no consensus in removing this info. My experience in the 1.5+ years since that change is the following: 1) I do not remember seeing anyone using $$ keywords in the new java files. While we sometimes forget to set svn:eol-style property for the new files, the svn:keywords is not in the default autoprops configuration and thus will have to be set explicitly. 2) There were several occasions when a line with $Id$ tag was broken by autoformatting. If the file name is long, the "@version $Id $" line can be more that 80 characters and formatting the source code wrapped the second $ to the next line, breaking the keyword. 3) During this time there was no occasion when this $Id$ information in the source files were useful for me. Essentially it says how old is this file, but files do change often and a change set usually spawns several files. I think $Id$ tags are useful in textual documents like README, because it is good to review those from time to time and update stale information. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
