On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:26:52PM -0800, Simon Marlow wrote: > Tue Feb 6 13:25:36 PST 2007 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Detect the snapshot version number using darcs > For non-release builds, we want to append a date to the version number > (e.g. 6.7.20070206). Previously this was done by the nightly build > script, this new method figures out the snapshot version by querying > the darcs repository and finding the date of the most recent patch > (actually it finds the most recent of the last 100 patches, but that > should be good enough). This is done by the configure script. > > To handle source distributions, we create a file VERSION in the > top-level directory that contains the version number, and ship this in > the source distribution. The configure script picks up the version > from this file if it doesn't see a _darcs directory.
Would it not be nicer for the buildbot scripts to put the date (and perhaps even time) of the start of the build somewhere? The darcs hack is still nice for manual builds, though; perhaps always use VERSION if it exists (release tarballs and buildbot builds) and ask darcs otherwise? Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
