On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2016-09-28 19:30, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 09/28/2016 02:30 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
Maybe install it in the zoneinfo dir as ".version"? Perhaps we should put some syntax into the installed file, so that no matter what the version is, the file can't be misinterpreted as a tz binary file. For example, the file could be a line of the form "version='V'" rather than just "V", and we could call the file "version.sh" so that people expect it to use shell script syntax. This would give us more freedom to extend the file's format later. Calling the file "version.sh" also makes it clearer that it's not a normal data file, whose names do not contain ".". It might be better to do it that way, than to use a leading "." and make the file hidden.
How about just keeping it pure data and calling it version.txt, version.list, version.version, or $PKG.version?
Or, if we anticipate additional metadata in the future, we could include a metadata.txt file similar to <version>2016g</version> +------------------+--------------------------+------------------------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee.com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at netbsd.org | +------------------+--------------------------+------------------------+