Re: Include date in TeX-submit-bug-report

* Reiner Steib (2005-01-27) writes:

> On Thu, Jan 27 2005, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> * Reiner Steib (2005-01-27) writes:
>>
>>> what about adding `AUCTeX-date' to `TeX-submit-bug-report' if
>>> `AUCTeX-version' indicates that we have a CVS version?
>>
>> I fail to see in which way this will improve a bug report.  One has to
>> check if the referenced version of tex.el is up-to-date anyway.  Do
>> you have an example where the date would be useful?
>
> When reading...
>
> ,----
> | From: Erik Frisk <[email protected]>
> | Subject: Label-bug
> | Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:41:20 +0100
> | Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> `----
>
> ... I had no idea whether "Package: AUCTeX CVS-5.475" is outdated or
> not.  The string "2005-01-06" would give me this information
> _directly_

It still is an approximation.  First, tex.el doesn't have to be the
last file changed.  But this is a problem not related to your
suggestion.  Second, you don't know if checkins have happened since
the displayed date, so you need to look at the CVS repository anyway
to be sure.  In this way there is no real advantage over the file
version number.

> (an it won't hurt in any case).

That's true.

> Additionally when I'm
> offline, I only have the ChangeLog file and not the CVS history
> available.

The possibility to relate the date with the ChangeLog entries is a
good argument.  So, no objections from me.

-- 
Ralf