On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Well, I do not like this as well. This is only necessary for the SVN build >> and this also works fine without. So when svn is not available, then ant >> may ignore this part. It also works without. > > What is the wider issue behind this. All this is done just so we have a > version number in the Manifest file, is that right? Who uses this > version number?
The plugin version check. > If so, then I would say that this should be correct in the .jar we > distribute but we should not try and distribute a build.xml that has > these bells and whistles. To my knowledge, SVN version number retrieval > is buggy anyway - if someone checks out JOSM, makes a change, commits > that, then runs the build, the build will still show the pre-commit > revision number; only an "svn update" fixes this. Yes. Anyway the build.xml for all the plugins uses the same method for ages now, so I see no problem to have this in josm as well. Whoever has the problem with svn only needs to copy a svn into one the search paths and everything is fine. The problem you mention is correct, but I think it is not so relevant. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
