URL:
<http://gna.org/patch/?3121>
Summary: Configure option to set version tag to follow
Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: cazfi
Submitted on: Sun 05 Feb 2012 08:33:16 PM EET
Category: bootstrap
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: Ready For Test
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: 2.4.0, 2.5.0
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Details:
Currently there's just one version information sent by metaserver that
client's use to determine if there's newer version of freeciv available.
I find this lacking. Sometimes one may want to follow just bugfix releases
from the same branch, and not incompatible feature releases. Notification
about new stable source code tarball, sometimes weeks before binary is build,
may confuse people who can only use prebuilt windows binaries.
I plan to add metaserver support for several version tags. "Stable" tag would
act just like what we currently have - it would contain latest stable release
from latest branch. Other tags could be created for individual branches, build
types (such as official windows binary using tag "winbuild"), and even things
I have not yet thought of.
While metaserver side has no support for version tags (though the single
version information it has can appear as tag to freeciv side), this patch adds
freeciv side support for building it to use different tags. I'd want this in
before 2.4.0-beta1 since it does change metaserver protocol (
"versions.latest_stable" -> "versions.stable" ) and I rather would not use
earlier version in any release forcing us to maintain it indefinitely to
future.
Once version tags support is added to metaserver, someone wanting to use some
new tag in their freeciv build should contact me for adding tag to
metaserver's list.
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Date: Sun 05 Feb 2012 08:33:16 PM EET Name: FollowTag.diff Size: 2kB By:
cazfi
<http://gna.org/patch/download.php?file_id=15014>
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