Re: [PHP-PEAR] RCS tags

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:


> Quoting Colin Viebrock <[email protected]>:
>
> > What about a standard method?
> >
> > function _get_rcs_id() {
> > return '$Id$';
> > }
>
> Well, that'd be _getRcsID() by PEAR standards (I think I like
_getRevisionId()
> a little better), but I don't have any real objections to it... we don't
want
> to introduce too many things like this, though, and bloat standard
packages...
>

Why not just do:

// $Revision$

Seriously - you shouldn't be actually comparing RCS ids from a program; my
suggestion was purely for a simple visibility test.  I think the only
version function that a PEAR package should be obliged to have is an
author-defined version, which can encompass a set of changes, and the RCS
tag should just stick around in the comments where it can be seen easily.

Anil