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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>, Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>
Cc: 43442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#43442] Subversion keyword substitution
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:05:14 +0200

Hi,

On lun., 27 mars 2023 at 11:04, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> wrote:

>> It seems like there’s a direct conflict between ease of packaging and
>> ease of time travel.  In the hypothetical case that a keyword mattered,
>> it would be a nasty surprise to the package author.  They would have to
>> (a) discover the problem and (b) manually do the keyword substitution in
>> Scheme (or work around it).

That’s an application of the non-free lunch theorem, no? :-)


> My intuition is that the worst “problem” we might have is ‘--version’
> showing unexpanded keywords.

Somehow, I would prefer to pay the surprise by package author using
Subversion rather than not being fully reproducible over the time.


Cheers,
simon

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