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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:57:31 -0400
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Subject:	Re: setup versioning
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In-Reply-To:	<200008022053.QAA23596@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:44PM -0400

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:44PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> The "old" setup.exe just used a $Revision$ tag in setup.c as well
>> as time and date.
>
>The old setup also had basically only one source file.  The new setup
>has many, so there's a good chance that any given file won't be
>touched during an update.  The only one I could think of was
>ChangeLog, which almost always changes when setup changes.

The old setup had at least 10 source files and I used to force the
version change when I made a release.

cgf

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