dates of !Boot and !System within download

I have just downloaded the current development version,
NetSurf-gcc-json-1718/zip and am in the throes of installing it on
several machines here.

Datestamps on the !Boot and !System folders and all their contents
were lost again sometime before 2014-02-04 (possibly before
2013-04-25, which is the previous time I logged this). It's
apparently difficult for the autobuilder(?) to maintain true
datestamps on these files.

Suggestion to the Netsurf team:

Please, could you include an extra "Readme-date" file in the download
zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last
actual change and words to the effect that "If you have updated !Boot
and !System since this date, there is no need to do it this time."

It would save the chore of going to every machine and repepetititively
performing the merge-boot and merge-system rigamarole when it isn't
necessary. (The rest of the job of updating the !Netsurf application
on all stations can be done over the network.) Thanks.



Here are actual internal dates of modules in today's download. The
most recent update was in fact more than a year ago.

In the !System.310.Modules directory:
CryptRandom 0.13 (01 Jun 2012) © Theo Markettos theo@markettos.org.uk
Iconv 0.12 (20 Jan 2013)
SharedUnixLibrary 1.10 (10 Apr 2006) (C) UnixLib Developers, 2001-2006
Tinct 0.14 (25 Apr 2009) [fr]

In the !System.310.Modules.Network directory:
AcornURI 1.04 (20 May 2006) © Christian Ludlam


The !Boot in today's download contains !Boot.Resources.!Unicode, which
is an application containing 78 files (encodings and other stuff).
All of them are stamped 2014-02-04, and unfortunately none of them
have internal dates.

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