Subject: Re: Why commands in the source tree don't have version?
To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 02/13/2001 10:29:51
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 3:53 am, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> I think it's better that each Command in the source tree
> (e.g. /usr/bin/make) is also maintained by versioning like "pkgsrc"
> commands and given a new version number if it changes its
> behavier. How do you think?
Depends how detailed you want the version numbers to be. ident gives the
version of every file statically linked into the binary. however that might
be a bit too detailed?
Chris