Re: Re[5]: [cedet-semantic] COGRE error by make
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From: Colin M. <c.m...@al...> - 2002-01-25 17:24:58
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Alex Schroeder <al...@gn...> writes: > Colin Marquardt <c.m...@al...> writes: > >> IMO, this is requiring too much manual effort, and would not fit too well >> for code changes between release cycles (since you might be hesitant to >> make a new version). One approach I can imagine would be to put the RCS >> Id into a variable and do a substring match on it. That would only make >> it one file to change by hand, and allows a nice, custom error message. > > But then you have to do version string parsing, which is error prone, Well, the format of version numbers from RCS Ids (there was even a placeholder for just version numbers, no?) is sufficiently well documented as to be not a problem I guess, but... > and when files get integrated into Emacs, these Ids will go away, > breaking all the existing code. ...this I hadn't thought of. Hmm. If there was an ideal solution to that problem, it would have been invented and adopted long ago, so who am I to think I could do it right away... :) Cheers, Colin |