[Asterisk-Dev] Re: Makefile changes in CVS HEAD

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <42A3CBEF.5000903 at digium.com>,
Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> 
> [...] and also changed the Asterisk version string for CVS 
> builds to reflect the build date/time, instead of the checkout date/time.

This seems strange to me. Wasn't the intent of the version string to help
identify WHAT code is being run, rather than just when it was compiled
(and the code being compiled could be 7 minutes or 7 weeks old, and you
wouldn't know any more).

Cheers
Tony
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