[email protected] writes: > Reviewers: dak, > > Message: > On 2020/01/08 16:18:25, dak wrote: >> https://codereview.appspot.com/549350043/diff/581410043/configure.ac >> File configure.ac (right): > > > https://codereview.appspot.com/549350043/diff/581410043/configure.ac#newcode7 >> configure.ac:7: AC_INIT([LilyPond], [2.21.0], mailto:[[email protected]], >> [lilypond], [http://lilypond.org/]) >> Hardwiring the version number in this manner is a real maintenance drag. >> Couldn't autogen.sh create a VERSION.AC file (or something like it) >> containing >> only the version number that is just included here? > > I agree that it's essentially duplicated, but it's not that we bump the > version every day. To make sure there's no divergence, I added a check > that the one provided in AC_INIT and in VERSION are the same. > > Ideally, I'd like to get rid of the VERSION completely, but apparently > you can build the website without configure'ing the project. I wasn't > sure if that is still used, so I went for this solution.
That doesn't answer my question, does it? -- David Kastrup
