[parted-devel] including author names in --version output

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Wed Feb 21 17:01:25 CET 2007


David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:

>>   $ ./parted --version
>>   parted (GNU parted) 1.9.9
>>   Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>   This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
>>   the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>>   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>> 
>>   Written by <http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/AUTHORS>.
>
> I think this is a perfect solution and far more appropriate.  Granted,
> it requires that we keep the URL up to date in the source, but we'd have
> to do that anyway if we had the author list there.

Yes David. I think you're right. I changed my mind ;-)

It looks easier to read.

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