Re: [PATCH] parse-datetime: do some more renaming

[Eric Blake]

On 10/05/2010 02:52 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> address@hidden was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin
> address@hidden was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin

Is that the correct historical name, or should this be worded:

@code{parse_datetime} started life as @code{getdate}, as originally 
implemented...

>   (@email{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina
>   at Chapel Hill.  The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on
>   Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@email{rsalz@@bbn.com})
>   and Jim Berets (@email{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990.  Various
>   revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering,
> -Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{parse_datetime}
> +Paul Eggert and others, including renaming it to @code{get_date} and
> +then to @code{parse_datetime}

given that we are documenting its renames through history?  Should we 
also mention the non-thread-safe getdate() POSIX function, and mention 
how the two differ?

Thanks for the remaining cleanups.

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