Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:28:55 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <p06200701be032302cfc4@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050106101233.GL16316@myrddin.originative.co.uk> References: <40695.1104961386@critter.freebsd.dk> <41DC60CD.8000802@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <20050105.145709.74659919.imp@harmony.village.org> <20050106101233.GL16316@myrddin.originative.co.uk>
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At 10:12 AM +0000 1/6/05, Paul Richards wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:57:09PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> phk> A harder problem is to detect when the copyright ends.
>>
> > End of the comment (or first blank line for those languages that
> > don't have block comments). Remember, my script grabs the entire
> > license, not just the copyright notice.
>
>
>You seem to have done a lot of these already, but if a total sweep
>of the tree to properly demarcate copyrights was going to be done
>then I think something more deterministic and useful for processing
>would have been better. Such as a Javadoc directive, XML container
>tag or something similar etc. That would move us a step along the
>way to being able to process our source files for a number of other
>reasons as well then.
I agree with this, although I don't feel too strongly about it. It
does seem a bit odd that we'd pick a three-character sequence that
already has some unrelated meaning, and add to it this special meaning.
If the idea was to avoid a lot of repo-churn, then we could start out
with
"use the '/*-' trick where it works, but use the new delimiters
in any source file that you have to change because it doesn't already
have the appropriate '/*-'".
...but my guess is that this ship has already sailed.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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