Am 08.07.2011 13:35 schrieb Stefan Tauner:
i had the idea to implement an expiration date for flashrom binaries (i.e. a time bomb). in the case distributions ship ancient binaries (in the future) this may save a bunch of hardware.
i noted two reactions back then when i proposed this idea on IRC in my todo.txt: <twice11> If I validated software to work on some system, I don't want it to suddenly break one year later. <agaran> twice11: but kind notify that version you use is %d days old (and repeated every multiple of time or 100days or so) could be nice
this proof of concept is probably not mergeable - especially the strptime() might be a problem (alternatives welcome), but i still think it is worth to think about something like this. comments?
Good idea, but we will have to make sure this won't cause problems for users of live CDs and FreeDOS distributions etc...
Regards, Carl-Daniel