On 2/8/2013 3:34 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Walter Bright, el 8 de February a las 03:03 me escribiste:
On 2/8/2013 2:19 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Leandro Lucarella, el 7 de February a las 13:49 me escribiste:
Walter Bright, el 6 de February a las 21:52 me escribiste:
On 2/6/2013 3:12 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
May I ask what other uses do you have in mind for VERSION? Do you
think they could not benefit too from having a more accurate
version (or even that it will have a negative impact)?
I have several makefiles and install files that take the version
number as an argument - it's been a giant error-prone pain to do
this, and Andrei suggested a single VERSION file to take its place.
And you use these only when releasing or in your daily routine too?
Since betas are starting to flowing, it will be a good oportunity to do
this. So any input for me to know how to do it in a way that it works
for everyone would be appreciated. Or is there no interest at all on
having a proper version information in the binary...
If you only want it in the binary, then put it in a .h file. VERSION
is used for other things as well as generating binaries - that's the
whole point of it. It's not scriptable if I have to do it by hand each
time.
I think it would be good to be anywhere else where a version string is
used, but even then I wasn't planning to put it in the VERSION file,
I suggested to use the VERSION file to indicate if the extra git hash
should be specified, by adding the -devel suffix. When you want to make
a release and remove the extra development version information, just
remove the suffix from the VERSION file.
If you want to keep the VERSION file without the -devel suffix always,
I can come up with a different way to do it (a header file doesn't seems
like a good idea because this information is not static, is taken from
the output of a git command). I could add a Make variable to append this
information and you can do something like make RELEASE=1 to build
a release binary.
I think the way to go is to completely get rid of any VERSION file and
use git to set version numbers through tags, but one step at the time ;)
VERSION drives git, not the other way around!
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