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

[Tres Seaver]

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Fred Drake wrote:
> On 7/4/07, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> I propose we stop bothering to include $Id$ strings.  (Note that I'm
>> *not* suggesting we go out of our way to remove them.)
> 
> +1

+1.  The only real win for those tags was in debugging problems in
servers built against trunk / branch checkouts, a practice which we have
happily shot in the head by now (www.zope.org is still there,
unfortunately).

> These have never proved anything more than distractions.  Avoiding
> them in the future is the way to go.  Removing them opportunistically
> (as modules get touched anyway) would be welcome gardening of the
> codebase.

- -1.  Such cosmetic cleanup tends to make backporting patches harder, for
very little win.


Tres.
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