Gianluca Montecchi <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 01:02:06 Ben Finney wrote:
> > Can you come up with a simple name that tells the user exactly what
> > the date means?
>
> Of course.
>
> I modified it in
>
> galactica:~/Devel/be-gian> be --version
>
> revision: 0602f53bd0e8e5708235025b16527f7b389e33f5
> commit date: 2010-06-29

See, that's a problem. The user of BE is going to be thinking in terms
of the commits *they* are making. So I don't think “commit date” is too
helpful.

Better would be a “release date”, if there were such a thing.

My ideal resolution to this would be for ‘be --version’ to actually show
the version string; but that would require that BE actually gets
released with a version string.

-- 
 \      “It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children |
  `\   are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, |
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Ben Finney


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