[ESS] Copyright year in ess-autoloads.el

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hello,

Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>>> Hello, Everytime I update ESS from MELPA, I get interrupted with the
>>> question: "Add 2014 to copyright?" [...]  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 ???
>
> I agree with this. That file is a stub from 2012 and wasn't modified
> since then.

I think we all understand and agree that the file contents did not
change, hence SHOULD NOT HAVE the current year in it.

Though, the file has been CREATED yesterday when I updated the ESS
package from ELPA:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 Fabrice None   2516 2014-08-25 10:28 ess-autoloads.el
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Hence, "officially" (IIUC), it SHOULD HAVE yesterday's year.

This is conflicting, yes.

> Autoloads file should be replaced with auto-generated autoloads. This
> wasn't possible due to the limitations in emacs package system back in
> 2012. I think all those issues are solved now, so it's time to look
> into that again.

I guess the above is (part of) the problem.

Anyway, I don't want this to be top-priority. I just was mentioning it,
because I get this interruption every time I update the ESS package,
never with the others. But I can live with it.

Best regards,
Seb

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Sebastien Vauban