Re: FVWM: suggestion about the web site at http://www.fvwm.org/

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:08:32 -0500

Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:39:58PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
> > "Rouben Rostamian" <rostamian_at_umbc.edu> writes:
> > > Fvwm's home page at http://www.fvwm.org/ says:
> > > Similarly, the "Latest News" link takes us to:
> > >
> > > http://www.fvwm.org/generated/NEWS.html
> > >
> > > where again we are given no dates, thus we are left in the dark as
> > > to how "Late" the "Latest News" may be.
> >
> > Actually, if you scroll down to 2.4.15, it is dated.
> > Whats not dated is the news for 2.5.6 which says
> > "not released yet".
>
> If this becomes common practice, the instructions have to be
> added to the DEVELOPERS file.

We've been getting dates inserted by the make_fvwmdist.sh shell
for a long time now. The original poster was happy with
the "not released yet", he just missed the dates on the other
releases.

> By the way, I do not find a "last
> modified" date terribly useful. In any case, it could be pulled
> from cvs automatically, without the need to remember updating it
> each time fvwm-web is touched.

That "last modified" date is supposed to be updated automatically
by an XEmacs save. I think the surrounding comments that make it
work got erased somehow.

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