Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Dima Kogan <gn...@di...> writes:

> Ethan Merritt <eam...@gm...> writes:
>
>> If you are building from a snapshot, the correct date should be the
>> date of the snapshot. I don't know how to do that. Do you?
>
> This should be encoded in the snapshot in some way.

Looking at the patch, I think that we should generate the timestamp.h at
snapshot-building time, and the Makefile in the snapshot shouldn't ever
generate it or delete it. Reasonable?