On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Darryl L. Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 11:21:07AM -0500, Rafael Schloming wrote: > > > I pushed a patch this morning that bumped the Perl and Ruby versions. > > > Can you please include that in RC2? Thanks. > > > > > > > That will be picked up for RC2, but I really think we need one and only > one > > place to bump the version number for a given release. Is there a reason > > that it is difficult to make those builds reference an external version > > number somehow? > > Not difficult, no. We just have to pass it through a similar filter as > would be done when using autoconf. For development purposes the version > doesn't matter, just when we're creating those artifacts. > > So we could change release.sh to take the version number that's passed > in and use it, though that's duplicating what's in the root > CMakeLists.txt already. It just needs to be something we don't have to > pass into the build system for packaging, for example. > I think if we were to consolidate it into one place we'd pick a file in svn and have both release.sh and CMakeLists.txt pull it out of there and nix the release.sh parameter. That way the svn number encoded in the release will always point to a source tree that builds with the correct version. --Rafael
