[ESS] Copyright year in ess-autoloads.el

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Mon Aug 25 16:39:14 CEST 2014


>>>>> Sebastien Vauban <sva-news at mygooglest.com>
>>>>>     on Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:37:17 +0200 writes:

    > Hello, Everytime I update ESS from MELPA, I get
    > interrupted with the question: "Add 2014 to copyright?",
    > as you can see:

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Saving file d:/Users/fni/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20140824.1452/ess-autoloads.el...
> Add 2014 to copyright? (y or n) n
> Wrote d:/Users/fni/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20140824.1452/ess-autoloads.el
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> This comes from the following chunk of code in my .emacs file:

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   ;; update the copyright notice to indicate the current year
>   (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'copyright-update)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> because the copyright year in the `ess-autoloads.el' file is NOT
> up-to-date:

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ;; Copyright (C) 2012 Donald E. Curtis
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> Could you put an updated copyright?

Well, I can (and will) easily add a line with 2014 in it.

But then you would want us to update this line every year ???

Martin



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