I'm just finishing up an addition to the build script that executes "svnversion" and stores the result in a "versioninfo" file that would be placed in the clojure.jar file and the value stored in a *version* var in boot.clj.
If someone is building from source, I think we can assume they have development tools. -Matt On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Graham Fawcett wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > wrote: >>> >>> If Rich would be willing to add this to boot.clj, >> [snip] >>> >>> ...then (clojure-svn-revision) ought to return the revision number >>> as >>> a string. >> >> I'd really like to see something like this too, but unfortunately I >> don't think it's this simple. >> >> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but any changes to the Clojure >> sources >> that don't include a change to boot.clj will fail to update this >> revision number. If that's the case, the number reported could be >> misleading, and I'd argue would be worse than no number at all. > > Oh, excellent point. > >> I think the "right" way to do this would be for the Clojure compile >> process to include a call out to "svn info" to get the revision >> number >> of the whole tree, and then somehow include the results of that back >> in the .jar file for some Clojure function to read. ...but I don't >> really know enough about ant (or svn either, for that matter) to do >> this myself. > > I suspect there is a better way than that -- we shouldn't really > depend upon the client to have 'svn' installed at build-time, though > it would often be the case. > > Subversion supports 'hook scripts' that are run server-side during a > commit process. I'm sure someone else has written such a script to > update a version-file (e.g. version.clj, containing a *version* def) > that is touched any time a revision is made. > > Let me see what I can find. > > Graham > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
