Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
>
>> As said I can remove them for the Makefiles+code we "own" now and the
>> others as late as possible since the "ident" stuff is the _major_ source
>> of bitrot. I don't want to play the "catch the ident changes"-game over
>> and over again since the time for that comes from my almost non-existing
>> chunk of free time...
>>
>
> Are you saying the ident lines in question are in the upstream source, not
> Sun added? If so, then leaving them in permanently and having the ON CRT
> waive their removal is the only sane choice. Upstream code should always
> be exempt from style and formatting rules such as ident removal and cstyle,
> since otherwise every update is an exercise in pointless time wasting.
>
Agreed, *IF* the ident keywords are *expanded* (as they should be in
this case). If they are not expanded with SCCS, then they can
potentially do more harm then good.
-- Garrett
