[m-rev.] for review: Print version information on two lines.

Zoltan Somogyi zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com
Tue Mar 4 14:16:45 AEDT 2014



On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 14:08:43 +1100, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, it is kind of nice for all the pertinent information
> to be on the first line.  There may be scripts which already expect it.
> I don't know if they exist and you could argue they shouldn't do that,
> but if someone else changed *their* output for a trivial reason and
> broke *my* script, I'd be pretty annoyed.

I don't know of any such scripts, and I don't think you do either,
since ...

> If we're going to change the output then perhaps it would be better to
> just drop the word "configured"?

... that change could break any such scripts too.

I am with Julien on this one. We shouldn't break existing applications
if we don't have to, but this does change does not do that. And if any
scripts DO break, their writers shouldn't be surprised, since they
depended on something they shouldn't have.

Zoltan.





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