binaries contain build date

ocaml-community / calendar

OCaml library for handling dates and times.

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binaries contain build date #27

Closed olafhering closed 2 years ago

olafhering commented 5 years ago

PR #6 created a src/dune which calls date(1), see commit 486d1801f16fcb439be1549de873cf90aa5f28b0 Storing a random date in binaries was never a good idea, in any project, at any time.

Debian sells a feature called "reproducible build", openSUSE/build-compare just wants to avoid needless republish to reduce load on mirrors.

Please, remove the version.ml:date API. It can not possibly serve any useful purpose...

pmetzger commented 4 years ago

Can you submit a patch to do this? It's more likely we will commit a pull request than that someone will get to it quickly on their own...

olafhering commented 4 years ago

Are you ok with removing that property from the API?