On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Carlo:
>
>  Instead of trying to solve this automatically, I would suggest the
>  following instead:
>
>  - set GANGLIA_NANO_VERSION to something like "test" by default
>  - when we want to build a "real" snapshot to be consumed by
>  users/developers, you replace "test" with the real SVN version
>  manually in configure.in
>
>  This has the added option of allowing the person doing the snapshot
>  release to add additional tags to the SVN version (eg.
>  GANGLIA_NANO_VERSION = 1090-perlmodules) -- the reason why this may be
>  useful is I may be testing some changes I have made in my local
>  repository (and not checked in), yet with the current scheme, the SVN
>  version will be the same.
>
>  Thoughts?

Seems reasonable, and at least worth trying out.

If there is going to be a manual aspect to this, make sure that it
gets written down in some sort of "README.snapshot" or
"README.release" file that has all of these small little things in it
(things like "update the ganglia.info download page to point to the
new release").


-- 
Jesse Becker
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