Re: Development builds available / Boot and System changes

Michael Drake wrote on 10 Oct:
> Development builds are available again from the NetSurf web site.

I wonder if it would be possible, please, to include a simple textfile
inside the zip that we download, stating the date when the contents of
!Boot and !System actually had the most recent change.

As far as I can make out, changes in !Boot and !System (ie, to Unicode
and to the modules Iconv, SharedULib, Tinct and URI) happen only
infrequently, but the rebuild process puts a meaningless new datestamp
on the files. For example, in the most recent download (#418), the
module !System.310.Modules.Network.URI is datestamped 2012-10-02
whereas that module's internal date is 2006-05-20. Other internal
dates: Iconv 2011-01-04, SharedULib 2006-04-10, Tinct 2009-04-25.
The Unicode items carry no believable date information at all.

I suggest this simple textfile stating a "latest change" date because
it's tedious to go through the process of merging !Boot and !System on
three separate machines every time a new test build of Netsurf is
installed, when in fact nothing has changed.


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