At 11:25 AM 6/16/2005, Greg Marr wrote: >At 12:01 PM 6/16/2005, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >>Back to httpd land; the question is --- is this the right choice for *our >>tarballs*? Which may or may not be related to the question above. In any >>case; this is useful metadata even for end users who build the package for >>the reasons I mentioned; does anyone have a desire/justification to lose the >>commit dates and use the RM's checkout date? > >It seems to me that modification or commit date/time is the right choice for >*tarballs*.
Ok. Other folks have thoughts about this? >Checkout date/time is generally the right choice for developers, because >otherwise make doesn't always pick up when a file has changed. (I've been bit >by the Visual SourceSafe "modification time" default enough times.) Although - heh - you are assuming the order of the checked out files happen to be stacked so that the dependency happens to be a fraction of a second older than the target :) To clarify, the last tarballs WERE checkout/export time stamped. Bill
