Re: last modified date in CVS

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> Harald Harders wrote:
>>> grep '/ChangeLog/' CVS/Entries  | sed 's_/ChangeLog/[0-9.]*/\(.*\)//_\1_'
>>>
>>> during compiling or by ./configure or ./prepare.
>>
>> Please keep in mind that not all developers are on Unix ...
>
> Oh yes, I sometimes forget this. How do these people work?

Those people install such utilities from cygwin, mingw or gnuwin32 projects.


I propose that
      ./configure
gets the date from ChangeLong, and #defines it in config.h as
GNUPLOT_LAST_MODIFIED. Then the printing code of "show version" uses

#ifdef GNUPLOT_LAST_MODIFIED
   fprintf last modified GNUPLOT_LAST_MODIFIED
#endif

For non-./configure platforms, makefile.os2, .cyg and .mgw can be updated to 
gather the date from ChangeLog as on ./configure. Others won't see the 
message.

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