[Surfraw-devel] Questions: -quiet & copyright junk

[Ivy Foster]

James Rowe <jnrowe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Ivy Foster's message of Tue Feb 23 00:39:07 +0000 2010:
> > Is the -quiet switch just kept around in case an elvis author wants to use
> > it?  Some quick grepping indicates that it's not actually used in any elvi
> > or in the main surfraw code itself.

> It has never been used in the git history either, perhaps the
> advert(surfraw.IN:466) was enabled at one time?

It's possible, I suppose. Does anybody think it's particularly necessary to the
code? If not, would (say) a `-verbose' flag to turn on diagnostic messages and
such be more useful? Both? Neither?

> > Also, I'm never really clear on how exactly copyright works, but do the
> > dates in COPYING, the -help message, etc., need to be updated?

> cef8ddad was the change to 2009 and that was on the 1st of March, so I guess
> the next change is right on schedule :)  

Aha, fair enough!

> It is a change I'm leaving to Ian though, as there may be policy I'm unaware
> of for changing files in debian/.

Gotcha; sounds good.

if