Re: Release timestamps for archaic tarballs

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Saturday, 14 October 2017 14:15:50 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I'm making good progress on the git conversion procedure.  I expect to
> have it wrapped up and ready to go tonight or tomorrow.  All I will
> need to pull the trigger at that point is
> 
> (a) Daniel Sebald's authorship map.
> 
> (b) Push privileges on the git hosting site.

I was thinking that you would create and populate the git repository
somewhere convenient to you, where you have control over everything
up to and including blowing it away and starting over.  Then when it 
seems to be successfully set up we would clone it onto SourceForge.

I can add you to the project "admin" or "developer" groups if you 
have a SourceForge user ID.  More fine-grained management of privileges
on the site is something I have never found proper documentation for.
I created a placeholder by hitting a button "Add new git" on the admin
tab
   https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/git-main/ref/master/
but I don't know exactly which subset of users associated with the
project can push to it.  I am guessing it's everyone in the "developer"
group. 

Please bear with me if I am misunderstanding what needs to be done.
I have used git only to clone and use an existing repository; I've never
set one up.

> Ethan, you sent me three tarballs of archaic releases:
> 
> gnuplot-1.10A.tar.gz
> gnuplot-2.0.tar.gz
> gnuplot-3.5.tar.gz
> 
> I have the machinery set up to graft these onto the front of the git
> repository, but I nees one piece of metadata for each: the release
> date.  The timestamps in the tarballs seem to have been clobbered
> at some point.

>From the self-reported date in the source file version.c
gnuplot 1.1.0A		"Thu May 18 21:57:24 MST 1989"
gnuplot 2.0.0 		"Wed Mar  7 22:18:59 EST 1990"
gnuplot 3.5  		"Fri Aug 27 05:21:33 GMT 1993"

Yeah the timestamps probably don't mean much.  I reconstructed the
source trees from multipart shar archives originally posed to usenet
group comp.sources.misc and stored in that form in the gnuplot-historical 
subdirectory on sf.net.   
I see there are also shar files there for "gnuplot-3.0", so I may try to
unpack and put those in a tarball also.

	Ethan




	Ethan