Re: Build date for snapshots?

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Josh,
>
>>>> Well, you could grep for the latest $PostgreSQL$ header line's commit
>>>> date, but I kinda wonder why exactly you should need to do that.  If you
>>>> don't know when you pulled the snapshot you are testing, I submit you
>>>> have a process problem you ought to fix.
>>>
>>> These aren't PostgreSQL test people, but folks from Java and the like
>>> testing other stuff.  And they're pulling the build from ftp:/pub/dev/,
>>> not from CVS.
>>
>> O.k. but why aren't they submitting pgsql-bugs?
>
> Believe me, you don't want these people submitting bugs unfiltered by me.
> Especially since they can't remember when they grabbed the snapshot.
>
> Seriously, though, it would be an aid to testing if we could add a tag to the
> version or README file or something for the pgsql-snapshot that told us build
> date.

How about adding a simple: 'touch snapshotdate' .. in the root directory? 
Would that suffice?

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