Re: Dates in boot loaders on !x86

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:03:24PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> > If that's the only use case, having an option to enable timestamps is 
> > enough: enable it *while you are hacking* but leave it off for the 
> > benefit of the rest of the world.
> 
> Yes, that was all we asked for: leave a switch in place, disable it for
> all standard builds.

Well, we derive the version to include from the version file. This is
controlled by a central script. What about adding support to expand
$DATE$ or some other magic version string, if it is the last in the
version file? If you are actively developing, you can add that to the
version file and hopefully remember to replace it with a proper version
entry before commit.

Joerg