On 26/03/2015 09:34, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:05:16 +0000 schrieb Joseph Wright: > > >> I note that both of the files with versions also have dates. I wonder if >> these might be as (or more) useful to most end users than MD5 sums. >> After all, a version/date combination is what we use for LaTeX packages, >> etc. > > > I'm not sure that I grasped the point of the discussion, but anyway: : > Most people never will never look at the file but take whatever > their texsystems gives them. So neither md5 sums nor dates nor > versions matters for them. Indeed :-) > But for the people who will look at the file for some reason every > additional information about source, date, version can be useful. I > always prefer verbose descriptions, even if they contain redundant > informations. Reasonable point. I will probably adjust again before we send the code to CTAN to parse the file date/time as well as file version. That way we'll be including everything the Unicode Consortium give us. -- Joseph Wright