On Thursday 24 December 2009 17:00:00 Stefan Sperling wrote: > What problem do you really want to solve with this? > Why is svnversion not good enough for your problem?
Since svnversion is a separate application, it has to be embedded in some way, e.g. into a Makefile and then passed to a local script or something which performs the actual substitutions. So this implies everybody who works on the project(s) has to call it more or less explicitly, otherwise the version wont be substituted. Not all projects (e.g. script based applications) however require something to be "built" by a Makefile or something equivalent. So often people won't explicitly call such a script in that case, just to update the version tag somewhere. So best way would be to enforce the version substitution by the version control system. CU Christian
