[PATCH fortran] Use fold_build everywhere

Tobias Schlüter tobias.schlueter@physik.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Feb 25 08:46:00 GMT 2008


Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> FX Coudert wrote:
>>> Attached is an updated version of the patch which also modifies the 
>>> copyright years of the touched files and which fixes a typo I made 
>>> when I tried to fix formatting in the diff.
>>
>> My understanding was that the copyright years in the files need to 
>> include year X iff a release of the codebase is done in year X, 
>> independently of whether the file was actually modified or not. From 
>> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html:
>>> To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have 
>>> made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using 
>>> a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision 
>>> installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you 
>>> add the new year, it is not required to keep track which files have 
>>> seen significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is 
>>> recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the 
>>> package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
> 
> Well, that doesn't make wrong what I did :-)  Certainly it's better than 
> not updating the numbers at all.  I will take care of the rest later today.

Done with the attached patch.

Cheers,
- Tobi
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