Re: [Docutils-develop] #132 Add SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support to date directive

[Elena ``of Valhalla'' <val...@tr...>]

On 2016-08-03 at 09:34:16 +0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> How about using a "normal" text substitution in this case? 
> [...]
>   Now I can have the |date| at several places but still only one place to
>   update the |date|.

yes, that's probably one of the direction I would have been looking in
(it's not trivial to use when the date is in different documents, but
probably solvable)

> The "SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is intended for just one
> use-case: reproducible compilation and build of software packages.
> [...]
> (Ab)using this variable for other purposes would actually increase the
> chance that this leads to undesired side-effects.

Yes, I was mostly wondering if there wasn't a generic enough use case
that could cover both my need and the one of reproducible builds, but
probably a solution for that would require a change in the upstream
documents anyway.

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Elena ``of Valhalla''