[Nix-dev] Re: Meta info

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

pjotr2008 at thebird.nl (Pjotr Prins) writes:

> I suppose we can do without - in a way that can be better too -
> though I think the author deserves credit. Adding the maintainer
> helps users of the packages to quickly find the right person ;-).

Free Software packages usually have an `AUTHOR' files and/or a
documentation section listing authors.  I think it'd be hard to maintain
an up-to-date and accurate author/maintainer list for most packages, so
I'm not in favor of this.

Thanks,
Ludovic.