Re: [IMP-dev] version and last_modified_by

[Ben Webb <ben@salilab.org>]

Daniel Russel wrote:
> First, replace last_modified_by with get_author and version with  
> get_version.
> Second, define a standard IMP version number and use it for all  
> objects in the IMP kernel. And have a standard author list (or just  
> say "IMP core developers" and give some general imp email address).
How about we go one step further and do something like (pseudo code)

struct VersionInfo {
  std::vector author, version;
}

virtual Restraint::get_version_info {
  return VersionInfo("IMP core developers", "SVN");
}

That way 1) a module can define a static VersionInfo somewhere (or a 
get_version_info() function) and all restraints etc. can return the same 
thing and 2) we reduce the number of virtual methods by one.
	Ben
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