On 2008-07-31, at 14:56EDT, Mamye Kratt wrote:
r10535, http://download.openlaszlo.org/nightly/trunk/10535, is
reporting 10529 on OS X, XP and Linux.
That is correct.
The 'build number' (the filename of the build on the build machines
and on the download page) is created by creating a tag for the build,
which increments the svn version number. Actually, there must be 2
check-ins triggered by a build, because each time you run a build, the
build number increments by 2.
But the 'build ID', the thing that I want to appear in the
versionInfoString, is computed by asking svn: "What is the last
change that was made in the branch that I am building?". And, for
trunk, as of this morning, that change is 10529. For the 'build ID' I
concatenate the svn revision with the branch name; from that you can
determine the state of the source that was used to create the build.
If you have multiple builds with no intervening checkins to the branch
being built, the 'build ID' will not change. (The tags that the build
system creates go in the tags branch, so do not affect the being built
branch.) Because it is true that the build system itself may have
changed between builds from identical sources, we _might_ want to add
something about that, but for now, the 'build date' seems sufficient
to distingush different builds of the same source.
