Re: [open-cobol-list] CVS Update 20060608

[Roger While]

> The only thing I regreat in OC is that it is not possible
>  (in free-syntax) to put a comment (*> ...) on a COPY line,
>  after the copy order, sure !
>  As I always use an old version, perhaps this was modified
>  in nearest. Sorry in this case else this was a facility
>  but not important.

Do you mean :
  COPY XYZ.    *> Comment

That works (in free format).
You can also have comments within the copied file.
eg. In XYZ.CBL
   01  FLD  PIC X. *> Comment

> Other thing : why not to named yours releases
>  "open-cobol-0.33.'DAYDATE'tar.gz like some others softwares ?
>  I have already downloaded some "0.33" !


Beacuse the tarball is created with the autotools,
ie. "make dist" which takes the info from "configure.ac".
The resultant tarball is then checked with "make distcheck"
which expects this name and then autoruns
(in a temporary directory) a configure, make, make check.

After the user does a tar xzf open-cobol-0.33.tar.gz
he can always do a "mv open-cobol-0.33 oc20060611".
(Of course, BEFORE you start the configure, make, etc.)

Roger