From: Felix W. <Fel...@gm...> - 2006-05-14 00:11:52
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David Goodger wrote: > $Id$ seems a safe bet; it contains the same information as $Date$ and > $Revision$, in an ASCII-only form. Maybe we should also compact "Author" and "Contact"? So we'd turn this:: # Authors: David Goodger # Contact: go...@py... # Revision: $Revision: 4541 $ # Date: $Date: 2006-02-28T22:33:41.317307Z $ # Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain. into this? :: # $Id$ # Author: David Goodger <go...@py...> # Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain. (Placing the $Id$ at the top seems to be pretty standard.) Add a blank line after $Id$? >> I don't think we should add an encoding tag to every source file. > > Why not? We have to touch all the files either way. Because using Id is terser, and because we could easily miss the absence of the encoding tag since we're both using English locales. -- Felix Wiemann -- http://www.ososo.de/ |