Re: meson files copyright - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Vik Fearing
Subject Re: meson files copyright
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Msg-id 08ae2238-ec90-4614-10f9-0be859b58f83@postgresfriends.org
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In response to Re: meson files copyright  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: meson files copyright  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 12/19/22 16:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> I notice that none of the meson files contain copyright notices. Shall I
>> add them?
> 
> +1.  Their comment density is pretty awful too --- maybe I'm just
> not used to meson, but they seem just about completely undocumented.
> And there's certainly been no effort to transfer the accumulated wisdom
> of the makefile comments (where it's still relevant, of course).
> 
> Don't see any simple fix for that, but copyright notices would
> be a good idea, and so would file identifiers according to our
> longstanding practice.

Perhaps a bit off-topic, but what is the point of the file identifiers?
-- 
Vik Fearing




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