Quoth Greg Stein, on 17 December 1998:
P.S. I would like to suggest one coding standard for the project: every source file should have the name and email address of the person who wrote it, the date it was started, and and RCS/CVS identifier of some kind (I'm partial to $Id$ myself, but $Revision$ is also fine). Any objections?
hehe... boy, you do like things in a particular way, don't you? Now I know where the version number stuff came from :-)
I am anal boy; hear me squeak! Actually, I'm doing all this to convince the Python world that not *all* people named Greg are left-coast long-haired anarchists. ;-)^2 But seriously: is it *really* such a burden to put something like this: # # distutils/version.py # # Implements multiple version numbering conventions for the # Python Module Distribution Utilities. # # written by Greg Ward <gward@cnri.reston.va.us>, 1998/12/17 # # $Id$ # in the top of a source file? I don't think so, and it's especially trivial compared to the time spent to write documentation and a test suite. (Which I'm also a fan of. But I figured insisting on them would just get me laughed off the sig, so I kept the request [name, date, RCS id] pretty small. I honestly didn't think even *you* would howl at that... silly me!) Which reminds me, by writing sysconfig.py Fred has shamed me into writing version.py. Should be available in that yet-to-be-created anonymous CVS archive Real Soon Now. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward@cnri.reston.va.us Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive voice: +1-703-620-8990 x287 Reston, Virginia, USA 20191-5434 fax: +1-703-620-0913