Re: Proposal: Remove CVS keywords from source

Alan S Liu wrote:
> I think I'm going to post this back out to the list to see if any other 
> opinions arise.  I'm also going to CC Markus directly to see what he 
> thinks.

My opinion?

Keywords that expand to the same text on all machines seem rather harmless.

Keywords that expand to different text (e.g., including local paths) seem like more trouble than 
they are worth. If people agree that we should retain them, then we need to work on tools for this. 
The tools should then use the CVS flags for whether to even look for keywords.

Note that ICU4C does not use any keywords. ICU4J uses them in most but not all files. Judging from 
ICU4C, it seems like we have not had a real need or big desire for them so far.

Note also that we are looking into migrating to Subversion this year. We should not develop 
CVS-specific tools.

markus

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