Sept. 28, 2016
6:33 p.m.
On Sep 28, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com> wrote:
As is known, the version number no longer appears in the Makefile. The release notes in NEWS say:
To support the more-accurate version number, its specification has moved from a line in the Makefile to a new source file 'version’.
The version file does not appear in the uncompressed tzdata2016g database. This is hurting my ability to report the version of the database to my clients. Can we please put a version file in the database?
Though I suppose I could scrape the version number out of the NEWS file… It would be nice to have an agreed upon *stable* place to read the version. Howard