Dear Maintainer,

All files produced by gl2ps include the current time in the local time
zone. It would be helpful if this could be overridden so that files
produced using gl2ps could be deterministic.

Please consider adding support for the standard SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
environment variable. If present, it should override the use of the
current time, and should also influence times to be written in a format
that does not depend on the local time zone or locale.

Thanks for your work on gl2ps.

Hi Mike,

thanks for the bugreport. I do not think, that adding the
fixed timestamp to all files produced by the gl2os that is
what the users want.

Regards

Anton


2017-09-21 22:28 GMT+02:00 Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>:

Thank you for your reply.

Respectfully, I am a user of gl2ps, and I do want to be able to use it
to write deterministic postscript output.

I do think the current behavior should be the default, I am only asking
for an option to create an output with a known timestamp.

If this is not done in gl2ps, then my workarounds include embedding a
patched version of gl2ps.c, using faketime, or post-processing the .ps
files to edit the timestamp strings. None of these are particularly
appealing options.

My original report may have sounded like a "why not?" request. So just
to be clear, I do have a real need for gl2ps to produce postscript files
that are deterministic.

Cheers,