Re: [Rest2web-develop] Problem with keywords in python source

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> On 2006-12-06, Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> wrote:
>> Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>>> Looking at the culprit, it is the expanded svn keyword
>>> LastChangedDate which expands on my sistem to "2006-10-11 00:50:49
>>> +0200 (mié, 11 oct 2006)".
>> Aargh... :-)
>>
>> Hmmm... I find these useful. It is useful to be able to look at
>> a file and see when it was last changed and by whom. Can I change
>> this to a different date format that doesn't screw you up ?
> 
> AFAICS you can't fix the problem because it is a client side problem.
> The same would happen with the Id keyword, since that puts the name of
> the file. On my system this disallows me to use the
> keyword in an ascii python script if I decided to rename the file to
> something using 8-bit characters, or just utf-8, that would again creep
> into the source, making it invalid.
> 
> And while you may not find it necessary for rest2web, I can tell you
> keywords are a pain in the ass just for making patches between development
> branches. Also at some point a coworker wanted to write a verification tool to
> make sure that the svn import from cvs was good, and he couldn't because
> keywords screwed up the md5sum: they even get expanded in different ways
> depending on your locale, cvs version and conversion switches.
> 
> I suggested on the mailing lists for keywords to always expand to english
> words, which is also fair since the keywords themselves are only available
> in English, but svn developers are just too overwhelmed with work to
> care about little details.
> 
>   http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-06/1306.shtml
> 
> I myself see the easy solution: keywords should just burn in hell. Any
> feature of a source control system that modifies the source in a
> non-deterministic way is just wrong, because you stop controlling
> the source.
> 
> Anyway it doesn't bother me, I can always add the encoding myself or
> remove the line, svn won't put it back for me in future updates.
> 

Ok - understood, and thanks.

If it becomes a problem for anyone else I will remove the date keywords.

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/index.shtml

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