[Zope3-dev] RFC: Don't need $Id$ string any more

[Gary Poster]

On Jul 4, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:

>
> I originally wanted $Id$ RCS keywords in module doc strings so that  
> we could create tools that determined run-time version  
> information.  Unfortunately, subversion makes using this a bit  
> difficult, as it doesn't update this information by default.
>
> I think that, with eggs, this isn't needed any more.  To find  
> versions being used, we just need to print the working set, which  
> lists the distributions used, with their versions.
>
> I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings.  (Note that  
> I'm *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.)
>
> Thoughts?

+1

(not been very good at adding them lately :-) )

Gary