On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 09:38:07PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > (...) It tells an
> > > up-to-date translation from outdated one using the revision
> > > information of the English version included as a comment.
> > 
> > I don't think that's good, because it will be forgotten. Rather use
> > the date of the translated file (...)
> 
> I don't think that this will work, either:  if there's a typo in the
> english version and it gets updated, then both the RCS ID as well as the
> timestamp change, yet the translated version may not require any
> changes.

Hehe, we can add the docs in the makefiles, with the translation depending
on the genuine document and having ${TOUCH} as a production rule :-)

Seriously, I think a date based comparison will be wrong a lot less
times than a revision based comparison.

Regards,

-Martin