> Something like a date is also a good reminder to ordinary people, they can see a date > and think 'is that REALLY the last time I updated?' and it might prompt them to do > so.
In that case, we can put a fixed date in that gets updated on each release (the updating could even be done as part of the release tools). That way the ordinary people *and* the people trying to make sure someone doesn't stuff trojans into MAME binaries both win.