[parted-devel] including author names in --version output

[Jim Meyering]

Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
> Andrew Clausen <clausen at econ.upenn.edu> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:16:30PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Yep, I saw that, but figured 3-5 names would be enough.
>>> The problem is where to draw the line.
>>>
>>> How about this instead:
>>>
>>>   $ parted/parted --version
>>>   parted (GNU parted) 1.9.9
>>>   Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>   This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
>>>   the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>>>   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>>
>>>   Written by <http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/AUTHORS>.
>>
>> That looks fine.
>>
>> Not that this decision has anything to do with me...  if you want to
>> maximize incentives for people to contribute, then you should fill the
>> screen up with every contributor's name!
>
> Yes, I agree. I think this could be done using a variable on config.h
> and parsing the AUTHORS file.

Ok.
I'll look into this.

[FWIW, Andrew's message was never delivered to my system.
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