From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 17:28:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA2D16A4CE; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:28:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1140843D31; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:28:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j06HStvw010380; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:28:56 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: 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> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:28:55 -0500 To: Paul Richards , Warner Losh From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:28:59 -0000 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