<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><pre class="u-article" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;color:rgb(31, 31, 31);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow-wrap:break-word;position:relative;word-break:break-word;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;">Bas, Thomas - many thanks for the clear replies. I'll use this year for new files, and remove the $Id$ on files I update. <br></pre><div><br></div><div>Seth<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig62266145"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature">web:http://geographika.co.uk<br></div><div class="signature">twitter: @geographika<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, at 10:20 PM, thomas bonfort wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div dir="auto"><div>Seth,<br></div><div dir="auto">The $id$ part effectively dates from svn commit hooks and can be safely removed (from all the files) now.<br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,<br></div><div dir="auto">Thomas<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div class="qt-gmail_attr" dir="ltr">Le mar. 17 sept. 2019 à 21:43, Seth G <<a href="mailto:sethg@geographika.co.uk">sethg@geographika.co.uk</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;" class="qt-gmail_quote"><div>Hi all,<br></div><div> <br></div><div> As part of the MapScript updates I'll be adding several new docstring related files and udpating the SWIG interface files. <br></div><div> Currently most file headers look similar to below:<br></div><div> <br></div><div> /* ===========================================================================<br></div><div> $Id$<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Project: MapServer<br></div><div> Purpose: SWIG interface file for mapscript colorObj extensions<br></div><div> Author: Steve Lime <br></div><div> Sean Gillies, <a rel="noreferrer" href="mailto:sgillies@frii.com">sgillies@frii.com</a><br></div><div> <br></div><div> ===========================================================================<br></div><div> Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Regents of the University of Minnesota.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a<br></div><div> copy of ..<br></div><div> <br></div><div> I have a couple of questions. <br></div><div> <br></div><div> 1. Is the "$Id$" necessary? I believe this was related to when the code was stored in SVN? If no longer necessary should it be removed?<br></div><div> 2. Should the copyright dates be updated? These are often inconsistent. On other projects the convention "Copyright (c) 1996-present" is used so that it doesn't become out-of-date. Is this an option?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> Seth<br></div><div> <br></div><div> --<br></div><div> web:<a rel="noreferrer noreferrer" href="http://geographika.co.uk">http://geographika.co.uk</a><br></div><div> twitter: @geographika<br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> mapserver-dev mailing list<br></div><div> <a rel="noreferrer" href="mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org">mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></div><div> <a rel="noreferrer noreferrer" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev</a><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>