Re: [sleuthkit-developers] Date Keyword Expansion

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Michael Cohen wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>   The whole keyword expansion thing imho is just a hack its not really
> needed since any decent VC system can tell you the latest date a file
> was changed. The only thing we have in the top of our files is a
> version string which contains a date a release was made (not when the
> file was changed). This then makes it easier to see which actual
> release a file came from when not under version control.
>
> We just use a quick bash script to sed the version string in prior  
> to release.

Do you do that as part of 'make dist' in auto* or do you do it as a  
separate process?

> I vote to remove the whole keyword expansion thing.

Done. I just removed them all.

brian