Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] version numbering and copyright dates

[John C. <ci...@ma...>]

Hi

Copyright years should only be updated when there is a material change. For example, suppose foo.el was authored in 2010 and not touched. Its copyright year should stay 2010. If foo.el then get's updated in 2025, it's copyright year would become 2010-2025.

We could probably automate this.  A small utility invoked from make could look at the git history of sources and validate/fix the copyrights. I'm somewhat familiar with how to do this, but have a backlog of items I'd like to get to.

Perhaps, for now, we just manually update them when the are touched.

Thanks
John
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From: Uwe Brauer via Matlab-emacs-discuss <mat...@li...>
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Subject: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] version numbering and copyright dates


Hi

I just realised what we should upgrade the copyright dates in a couple of files. I can do that but I am wondering whether the Makefile could take care of that.

Then:

We still have
(defconst matlab-mode-version "5.0"
  "Current version of MATLAB(R) mode.")


Shouldn't we upgrade at least to 5.1? 😉

I also plan to merge the   cell-mode and later the org-mode branch into
default. Then we definitely  should jump a bit up on the version numbers

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