On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:06:20PM -0800, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:49 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 12/9/20 7:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > > It comes from Gnulib's git-version-gen and GNUmakefile. > > > > > > I'm not defending it. In fact, it annoys me. But I didn't spend the > > > time to find another way to record the release version. > > > > Perhaps we should change git-version-gen and GNUmakefile to put this > > version-number stuff into a file name that doesn't start with '.'. (I don't > > know why there are two such files now.) > > I chose those names, because using "." files in that manner feels natural to me. > If that offends someone enough to change the names, I won't object. Sorry, it's too late to change these names, they're a part of the interface for many years and used by many projects. -- ldv
