From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24484 invoked by alias); 25 Jun 2013 14:50:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 24441 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jun 2013 14:50:03 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:50:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298661C6EA2; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id JEcpxYWVD8ls; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE54B1C6EA0; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:50:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5DDF4C8847; Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:53:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Pedro Alves Cc: Tom Tromey , Hans-Peter Nilsson , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] don't keep a gdb-specific date Message-ID: <20130625144959.GG5326@adacore.com> References: <1371835865-15879-1-git-send-email-tromey@redhat.com> <871u7rwodv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20130624224138.GC5326@adacore.com> <87y59ythcd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <51C9AC97.9000506@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51C9AC97.9000506@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00704.txt.bz2 > IMO, it'd make sense to push a very light/simple "VERSION" file > that only has the date and nothing else, like > > $ cat src/VERSION > 20130625 > $ > > to the top level. Then any project in the tree could source that > single file any way it saw fit. That would work for me. We would need to check if this is going to cause synchronization problems with GCC (I think there is a script somewhere that sends emails, which we'd want to adapt in order to exclude this file). -- Joel