Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] bug in type-validation for "deprecated" declaration

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Anyway, I've gone ahead and pushed your patch.  I noticed the copyright
> year in NEWS wasn't up-to-date and neither was the banner, so I've also
> updated that.

Generalized rant, not specific to this case:

There is simply no point in updating copyright dates any more when a file
is modified.  When you put the copyright notice on a new file, give it
the current year and otherwise forget it.  Copyrights expire 50-70 years
after the death of the copyright owner, and a century and more from now,
nobody will *care* exactly when the document falls into the public domain.

This is an actual policy at Google, and I'm trying to spread it around.

> AFAIK the only bug we have open is #916; lolevel-tests fails on
> Linux/MacPPC.

I haven't filed a bug, but the Cygwin test failures are ominous.

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