[ESS] Copyright year in ess-autoloads.el

[Frede Aakmann Tøgersen]

But why do you not comment the line

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'copyright-update)

in your .emacs?

Then you will not be annoyed anymore when updating ESS from ELPA.

Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ess-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:ess-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Sebastien Vauban
> Sent: 26. august 2014 10:03
> To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [ESS] Copyright year in ess-autoloads.el
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> Sebastien Vauban
> 
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