<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On 09/30/2016 09:04 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:<br>
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why not replace "unknown" in the VERSION setting with the actual version at the time the archive is created?<br>
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That would mean the Makefile would differ from what's in the repository.<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>Why is that a problem? The current logic in the Makefile (git describe) is useless outside of a git clone. It can be modified to use the pre-defined value if it is not "unknown" so that "make version" works in a directory where tzdata is expanded. The advantage over distributing the version file is backward compatibility.<br></div></div>