Dirk Reiners wrote:

>    Hi Allen,
>
>Allen Bierbaum wrote:
>  
>
>>Are the cvsid strings actually used for anything?
>>
>>I ask because the continue to create significant diffs for me and I 
>>don't really see the benefit of having them in the code.
>>    
>>
>I don't understand why they create diffs, honestly. The whole point of 
>havign them generated by the version control is so that they can be 
>ignored...
>
>They don't have a direct practical use, the main point  is to have a way 
>to concisely identify the components that a running system was built 
>from. On CVS that was a problem as all versions were local to the file, 
>I guess for svn the revision id is an acceptable choice, as it changes 
>globally.
>
>Proposal: Move the versioning out of OSGConfig into an OSGVersion.h. 
>Include that only in OSGBaseFunctions.cpp for some debug output and not 
>anywhere else (should be put into the dists, though). Include the svn 
>revision number in there, and update it as part of the build system. 
>Remove all cvs_id strings from the system.
>  
>
I would like that much better.  Then the OpenSG run-time version 
information could be something like:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>  revision: <svn rev>

That seems much more useful to me then the cvsids.

-Allen

>Comments?
>
>    Dirk
>
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