From: Thomas Enebo <Thomas.Enebo@...>
Date: 2009-02-26T08:15:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] JRuby 1.2.0RC1 Released

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> Robert Dober wrote:
>> Hmm that information should be transported by the tarball anyway (or
>> the realease notes ) and it might be interesting to see what has
>> changed lately especially for beta users chasing a bug, right? (Ok
>> there are release notes of course but a find with some clever
>> modification time constraints might be very helpful).
>> It somehow seems wrong to me to introduce entropy.
>
> I'd direct them to the SCM for that sort of information; what's in the 
> tarball shouldn't be expected to reflect anything about the original 
> dates and times. And obviously in this case, we didn't generate that 
> .so in the future :)
>
> - Charlie
>
I think I would prefer realistic time stamps...If I was looking in an 
expanded distro and looked at lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb (for example).  It 
would be nice to have it reflect last time checked in.  Not sure if we 
used -p to put them into our repo on last import, but it still seems 
like it could be useful....

Sterilizing all dates does not seem like it would help us much.  I only 
left the single future date in there since this was an RC and it would 
have involved rereleasing a subordinate package again and re-tagging.  
In other words, it was easy to see in testing...

-Tom