One version number, &c, take two

[Zack Weinberg]

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

>> I don't see why those projects would ever want to have divergent
>> opinions of what the current date is.
>
> I was thinking about divergent opinions about the tagging process, not
> the actual date used.  Binutils already has an alternate scheme with
> daily tagging.

Could you expand a bit please?

> Um, are you planning on comitting this file daily? 

Yes.

> The toplevel config/* is currently manually sync'd between gcc and
> binutils, it would be a mess if that blew up my scripts.

It's just the one file, could you special-case it?

> I meant specific to the gcc repository, as compared to gdb or
> binutils, not specific to the gcc program, as compared to libstdc++
> or libiberty.

In my opinion, only files specific to the gcc program belong in the
gcc subdirectory.

zw