Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is the same approach to version-numbering that started
> with git.git. Most of the infrastructure comes verbatim from
> coreutils, and is now also used in the upstream autoconf repo.
>
> The idea is to get the version string directly from git.
> This eliminates the pre/post-release requirement to manually
> sync configure.ac with the latest tag.
>
> One detail: it'd be relatively expensive to regenerate a new
> version string after every commit, since doing that now requires
> to run autoconf (see the new GNUmakefile rules). I've compromised
> in making it so when you run e.g., "make dist" or "make beta",
> that triggers an autoconf run to regenerated the version string.
>
> I'll push this later today if no one objects.
No objection from my side. :-)
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