_DATE__, version string, and distros

[Hal Murray]

>> I want an option that
>> shows that I've made some edits that aren't committed.

> Just a flag?  Maybe waf runs git status and makes a flag from the result?

The option I want needs to run on systems without git.

I want more than just a flag.  I want to know that the result of an edit, 
build, run is different from a following edit, build, run.    A time stamp 
solves that.  Anything else if overkill and we should probably stop 
bike-sheding it.


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