Re: meaning of "Automatic date update in version.in" commits

Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sep 22 2017, Petr Ovtchenkov <[email protected]> wrote:

> I.e. development process of kernel or glibc (ABI is important and "source
> identification" important too, isn't it?) dispense of such technique,

Unlike kernel and glibc, libbfd and libopcodes do not maintain ABI
compatibility, and never will.

> but binutils prefer to follow tradition from 1994 that was useful
> for publicly inaccessible CVS repo + public tarball on FTP.

bfd/version.h has been added in 2001, not 1994.  It still works very
well, no need to change anything that isn't broken.

Andreas.

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